Accurate promoter and enhancer identification in 127 ENCODE and roadmap epigenomics cell types and tissues by GenoSTAN

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Zacher, Benedikt ^a   Michel, Margaux ^d   Schwalb, Björn ^d   Cramer, Patrick ^d   Tresch, Achim ^b,c   Gagneur, Julien ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PLANT BREEDING RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHROMATIN; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; ENHANCER REGION; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; HUMAN; MEDICINE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

CHROMATIN; HISTONE;

ALGORITHMS; CHROMATIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; HISTONES; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL;

EID: 85008601761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169249     Document Type: Article

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