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Predicting Promoters

Feb 07, 2007

A paper published online in Nature Genetics ($) is getting attention on newswires. Senior author Bing Ren at the University of California, San Diego, and his team zeroed in on enhancer and promoter regions in the human genome for this study. The group tracked chemical patterns and used those to develop a new algorithm to predict and find such regulatory elements.

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