A bioinformatics analysis of alternative exon usage in human genes coding for extracellular matrix proteins

Genetics and Molecular Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 532-544

  Sakabe, Noboru Jo ^a,b   Vibranovski, Maria Dulcetti ^a,b   De Souza, Sandro José ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Bioinformatics; Exon skipping; Expressed sequences; Extracellular matrix; Human transcriptome

Indexed keywords

SCLEROPROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HUMAN GENETICS; INTRON; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EXONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEOME;

EID: 14644412463     PISSN: 16765680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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