SPLITS: A new program for predicting split and intron-containing tRNA genes at the genome level

In Silico Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 411-418

  Sugahara, Junichi ^a   Yachie, Nozomu ^a   Sekine, Yasuhiko ^b   Soma, Akiko ^b   Matsui, Motomu ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a   Kanai, Akio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bulge helix bulge splicing motif; Genome analysis; Intron containing tRNA; Software; Split tRNA; tRNAscan SE

Indexed keywords

TRANSFER RNA;

ANTICODON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRON; NANOARCHAEOTA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA SYNTHESIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS SPLICING;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOMICS; INTRONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOARCHAEOTA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, TRANSFER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 33845244847     PISSN: 13866338     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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