A novel method for finding tRNA genes

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 507-517

  Tsui, Vickie ^a   Macke, Tom ^a   Case, David A ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Introns; Nearest neighbor energy; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; DNA SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; GENES, ARCHAEAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, TRANSFER; THERMODYNAMICS;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037406094     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.2193703     Document Type: Article

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