A population study of the minicircles in Trypanosoma cruzi: Predicting guide RNAs in the absence of empirical RNA editing

BMC Genomics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Thomas, Sean ^a   Trejo Martinez, L L Isadora ^a   Westenberger, Scott J ^a   Sturm, Nancy R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINICIRCLE DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE; RNA; GUIDE RNA; KINETOPLAST DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CHAGAS DISEASE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PREDICTION; PSEUDOGENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FORECASTING; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROBABILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, KINETOPLAST; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FORECASTING; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA EDITING; RNA, GUIDE; RNA, PROTOZOAN; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34250623956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-8-133     Document Type: Article

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