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From transcription start site to cell biology

Philipp Kapranov

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Helicos BioSciences Corporation, One Kendall Square Building 700, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Citation and License

Genome Biology 2009, 10:217 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-4-217

Published: 20 April 2009

Abstract

The regulation of transcription is a complex process. Recent novel insights concerning the in vivo regulation and expression of protein-coding and non-coding RNAs have added previously unimagined levels of complexity to these processes.