StemChecker: A web-based tool to discover and explore stemness signatures in gene sets

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue W1, 2015, Pages W72-W77

  Pinto, José P ^a   Kalathur, Ravi K ^a,b   Oliveira, Daniel V ^a   Barata, Tânia ^a   Machado, Rui S R ^a   Machado, Susana ^a   Pacheco Leyva, Ivette ^a   Duarte, Isabel ^a   Futschik, Matthias E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOFTWARE; STEMCHECKER; ANIMAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; INTERNET; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PANCREAS TUMOR; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICE; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOFTWARE; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84979856605     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv529     Document Type: Article

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