Computational discovery of sense-antisense transcription in the human and mouse genomes

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2002, Pages

  Shendure, Jay ^a   Church, George M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Antisense Transcript; Antisense Transcription; Directional Cloning; UniGene Cluster

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA; DNA, ANTISENSE; EXONS; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037158780     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-9-research0044     Document Type: Article

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