Sequence information for the splicing of human pre-mRNA identified by support vector machine classification

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2637-2650

  Zhang, Xiang H F ^a   Heller, Katherine A ^b   Hefter, Ilana ^b   Leslie, Christina S ^b   Chasin, Lawrence A ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; MESSENGER RNA; PYRIMIDINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; MACHINE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE DATABASE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE COMPOSITION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CYTOSINE; DATABASES, GENETIC; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EXONS; GUANINE; HUMANS; PYRIMIDINES; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0346121460     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1679003     Document Type: Article

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