How to cite GREAT

• If you use GREAT in the context of human or mouse, please cite:
  Cory Y McLean, Dave Bristor, Michael Hiller, Shoa L Clarke, Bruce T Schaar, Craig B Lowe, Aaron M Wenger, and Gill Bejerano. "GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions". Nat. Biotechnol. 28(5):495-501, 2010. PMID 20436461

• If you use GREAT in the context of zebrafish, please cite:
  Michael Hiller, Saatvik Agarwal, Jim H. Notwell, Ravi Parikh, Harendra Guturu, Aaron M. Wenger, Gill Bejerano. "Computational methods to detect conserved non-genic elements in phylogenetically isolated genomes: application to zebrafish". Nucleic Acids Res., 2013. PMID 23814184

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Publications & Reprints

The Nature Biotechnology paper is currently the inaugural GREAT publication. Reprints are available at http://bejerano.stanford.edu/publications.html#ref27.

Some of the papers that cite GREAT

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20. Liu, Z., Scannell, D.R., Eisen, M.B., and Tjian, R. (2011). Control of embryonic stem cell lineage commitment by core promoter factor, TAF3. Cell 146, 720.
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