Chromatin immunoprecipitation of wide type fission yeast to identify intronic and exonic DNA regions with respect to RNA polymerase II occupancy, histone density and H3K36me3 patterns
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ORGANISM(S): Schizosaccharomyces pombe
SUBMITTER: Josette-Renée Landry
PROVIDER: E-TABM-946 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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