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Panning data for gold: the search for master regulators of cell fate

An approach for analyzing gene expression data identifies putative lineage-specifying transcription factors that may prove useful in cellular reprogramming.

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Figure 1: A computational biology approach to find regulators of cell fate.

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Trapkov, V., Stadtfeld, M. Panning data for gold: the search for master regulators of cell fate. Nat Methods 10, 476–477 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.2491

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