RiboSubstrates: A web application addressing the cleavage specificities of ribozymes in designated genomes

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lucier, Jean Francois ^a,b   Bergeron, Lucien Junior ^a,b   Brière, Francis P ^a,b   Ouellette, Rodney ^c,d   Elela, Sherif Abou ^a,b   Perreault, Jean Pierre ^a,b  

^a RNA Group   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c ATLANTIC CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEAVAGE SPECIFICITY; DEOXYRIBOZYMES; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYMES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; POTENTIAL SUBSTRATE; TARGET SEQUENCES; WEB APPLICATION;

BIOINFORMATICS; GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; TOOLS;

RNA;

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DEOXYRIBOZYME; HAMMERHEAD RIBOZYME; MESSENGER RNA; RIBOZYME; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DNA CLEAVAGE; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; RNA DEGRADATION; WEB BROWSER; ANIMAL; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMAN; INTERNET; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENOMICS; HEPATITIS DELTA VIRUS; HUMANS; INTERNET; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33750939204     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-480     Document Type: Article

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