Combining transcription factor binding affinities with open-chromatin data for accurate gene expression prediction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 54-66

  Schmidt, Florian ^a,b   Gasparoni, Nina ^a   Gasparoni, Gilles ^a   Gianmoena, Kathrin ^c   Cadenas, Cristina ^c   Polansky, Julia K ^d   Ebert, Peter ^b,e   Nordstrom, Karl ^a   Barann, Matthias ^f   Sinha, Anupam ^f   Frohler, Sebastian ^g   Xiong, Jieyi ^g   Amirabad, Azim Dehghani ^a,b,e   Ardakani, Fatemeh Behjati ^a,b   Hutter, Barbara ^h   Zipprich, Gideon ^h   Felder, Barbel ^h   Eils, Jurgen ^h   Brors, Benedikt ^h   Chen, Wei ^g   Hengstler, Jan G ^c   Hamann, Alf ^e   Lengauer, Thomas ^b   Rosenstiel, Philip ^f   Walter, Jorn ^a   Schulz, Marcel H ^a,b   more..

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ RESEARCH CENTRE FOR WORKING ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN FACTORS   (Germany)

^d German Rheumatism Research Centre   (Germany)

^e INTERNATIONAL MAX PLANCK RESEARCH SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^g MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^h GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; CHROMATIN; DNA; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHROMATIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA HISTONE INTERACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CELL; MACHINE LEARNING; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NOVEL SEGMENTATION BASED METHOD; OPEN CHROMATIN REGION; POSITION WEIGHT MATRIX; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ALGORITHM; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEP-G2 CELL LINE; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; K-562 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TUMOR CELL LINE;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEP G2 CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; HISTONES; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; K562 CELLS; MACHINE LEARNING; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 85015991570     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1061     Document Type: Article

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