Hairpins in a Haystack: Recognizing microRNA precursors in comparative genomics data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2006, Pages

  Hertel, Jana ^a   Stadler, Peter F ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FILTER; GENOME; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS; UROCHORDATA;

MAMMALIA; NEMATODA;

EID: 33747871855     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 13674811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btl257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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