Genome-wide bioinformatic and molecular analysis of introns in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 221-234

  Spingola, Marc ^a   Grate, Leslie ^a   Haussler, David ^a   Manuel Jr , Ares ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Branchpoint; Hidden Markov model; Intron database; Intron display; Splice site; Splicing

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MARKOV CHAINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPLICEOSOMES;

EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033034668     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299981682     Document Type: Article

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