Etymology

cistrome

C3I1S1T1R1O1M3E1

Today it means: The set of DNA segments (cis) of a transacting factor on a genome scale. Full definition →

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The story

From cis + trans + -ome. Coined by investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Technologies.

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