Systematic investigation of transcription factor activity in the context of chromatin using massively parallel DNA binding and expression assays
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ORGANISM(S): Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PROVIDER: GSE92300 | GEO | 2017/02/16
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA357133
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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