Vertebrate gene predictions and the problem of large genes

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 741-749

  Wang, Jun ^a,b   Li, ShengTing ^a   Zhang, Yong ^a,c   Zheng, HongKun ^a   Xu, Zhao ^a   Ye, Jia ^a   Yu, Jun ^a,b,d   Wong, Gane Ka Shu ^a,b,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; INTRON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR SIZE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VERTEBRATES;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0042880980     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1160     Document Type: Review

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