Technique finds gene regulatory sites without knowledge of regulators

Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 13:28 in Biology & Nature

A new statistical technique allows scientists to scan a genome for specific gene-regulatory regions without requiring prior knowledge of the relevant transcription factors. The technique has been experimentally validated in both the mouse genome and the fruit fly genome.

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