Background: The rate of mRNA transcription is controlled by transcription factors that bind to specific DNA motifs in promoter regions upstream of protein coding genes. Recent res...
Jakub Orzechowski Westholm, Feifei Xu, Hans Ronne,...
Background: DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification of the genome. Abnormal DNA methylation may result in silencing of tumor suppressor genes and is common in a va...
Background: Many research results show that the biological systems are composed of functional modules. Members in the same module usually have common functions. This is useful inf...
Background: Human Immunodeficiency Virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), exhibits very high genetic diversity with different var...
Background: Recent genomic scale survey of epigenetic states in the mammalian genomes has shown that promoters and enhancers are correlated with distinct chromatin signatures, pro...
Kyoung-Jae Won, Iouri Chepelev, Bing Ren, Wei Wang