Patterns of flanking sequence conservation and a characteristic upstream motif for microRNA gene identification

RNA

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1309-1322

  Ohler, Uwe ^a   Yekta, Soraya ^a,b   Lim, Lee P ^a,c   Bartel, David P ^a,b   Burge, Christopher B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^c ROSETTA INPHARMATICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational gene identification; MicroRNA; Noncoding RNA; Regulatory motif; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CALCULATION; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PLANT GROWTH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RNA GENE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, HELMINTH; MICRORNAS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, HELMINTH; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0842278323     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5206304     Document Type: Article

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