Integrated functional and bioinformatics approach for the identification and experimental verification of RNA signals: Application to HIV-1 INS

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2839-2851

  Wolff, Horst ^a   Brack Werner, Ruth ^a   Neumann, Markus ^a   Werner, Thomas ^a,b   Schneider, Ralf ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Genomatix GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; MESSENGER RNA; RED FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; REV PROTEIN; UNTRANSLATED RNA; VIRUS PROTEIN; PHOTOPROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN MOTIF; REPORTER GENE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VIRUS STRAIN; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HELA CELL; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PROVIRUS; REGULATORY RNA SEQUENCE; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE PRODUCTS, REV; HELA CELLS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MUTATION; PROVIRUSES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, RIBONUCLEIC ACID; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 0037930731     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg390     Document Type: Article

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