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Integrating sequence, evolution and functional genomics in regulatory genomics

Martin Vingron1 email, Alvis Brazma2, Richard Coulson2, Jacques van Helden3, Thomas Manke1, Kimmo Palin4, Olivier Sand3 and Esko Ukkonen5

Computational Molecular Biology, Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Genetik, Ihnestrasse 73, D-14195 Berlin, Germany

Microarray Group, European Bioinfomatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK

BiGRe - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Plaine, Bvd du Triomphe - CP263, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK

Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Helsinki University of Technology and University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:202doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-1-202

Published: 30 January 2009

Subject areas: Bioinformatics, Methods, Genome studies

Abstract

With genome analysis expanding from the study of genes to the study of gene regulation, 'regulatory genomics' utilizes sequence information, evolution and functional genomics measurements to unravel how regulatory information is encoded in the genome.


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