Absence of a simple code: how transcription factors read the genome.

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Published in Trends Biochem Sci on August 14, 2014

Authors

Matthew Slattery1, Tianyin Zhou2, Lin Yang2, Ana Carolina Dantas Machado2, Raluca Gordân3, Remo Rohs4

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN 55812, USA; Developmental Biology Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: mslatter@umn.edu.
2: Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
3: Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Departments of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Computer Science, and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: raluca.gordan@duke.edu.
4: Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, and Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic address: rohs@usc.edu.

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