Impact of RNA structure on the prediction of donor and acceptor splice sites

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Marashi, Sayed Amir ^a   Eslahchi, Changiz ^a,b   Pezeshk, Hamid ^a   Sadeghi, Mehdi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION METHODS; DONOR AND ACCEPTOR; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME SEQUENCING PROJECTS; INFORMATION CONTENTS; PREDICTION ALGORITHMS; SECOND-ORDER MARKOV MODEL; SECONDARY STRUCTURES;

ALGORITHMS; BIOINFORMATICS; DNA SEQUENCES; GENES; MARKOV PROCESSES; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA;

FORECASTING;

MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DONOR; GENETIC ALGORITHM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SIGNAL DETECTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFORMATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

VERTEBRATA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33746788906     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-297     Document Type: Article

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