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Automating ChIP-seq Experiments to Generate Epigenetic Profiles on 10,000 HeLa Cells
Published on: December 10, 2014
Putting epigenome comparison into practice
1NIH Epigenomics Roadmap Data Analysis and Coordination Center, Molecular and Human Genetics Department, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA. amilosav@bcm.edu
Nature Biotechnology
|October 15, 2010
Abstract:
Comparative analysis of epigenomes offers new opportunities to understand cellular differentiation, mutation effects and disease processes. But the scale and heterogeneity of epigenetic data present numerous computational challenges.
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