ddbRNA: Detection of conserved secondary structures in multiple alignments

Bioinformatics

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1606-1611

  di Bernardo, Diego ^a   Down, Thomas ^b   Hubbard, Tim ^b  

^a TELETHON INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND MEDICINE TIGEM   (Italy)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0141515775     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg229     Document Type: Article

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