Origins of introns based on the definition of exon modules and their conserved interfaces

Bioinformatics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 2-9

  de Roos, Albert D G ^a  

^a The Beagle Armada   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYSTEINE; GUANINE; RIBOZYME; RNA; TYROSINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DROSOPHILA; EVOLUTION; EXON; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HUMAN; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

EID: 12744271929     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bth475     Document Type: Article

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