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The authors are grateful to the UCSC Genome Browser staff for continuously develo** and maintaining the infrastructure on which this protocol relies. We also thank N. Ahituv for critically reading the manuscript and M. Nobrega for advice. A.C.S. is supported by the Graduate Research and Education in Adaptive bio-Technology (GREAT) Training Program of the UC Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, grant #2004-33. D.H. and G.B. are supported by a US National Human Genome Research Institute grant P41 HG002371. D.H. is also supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant.
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Bejerano, G., Siepel, A., Kent, W. et al. Computational screening of conserved genomic DNA in search of functional noncoding elements. Nat Methods 2, 535–545 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth0705-535
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