Assessing the number of ancestral alternatively spliced exons in the human genome

BMC Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Sorek, Rotem ^a,c   Dror, Gideon ^b   Shamir, Ron ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ACADEMIC COLLEGE OF TEL AVIV YAFFO   (Israel)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE CASSETTE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN GENOME; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; EXONS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 33751005573     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-7-273     Document Type: Article

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