Computational characterization and identification of core promoters of MicroRNA genes in C. elegans, H. sapiens and A. thaliana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4023 LNBI, Issue , 2007, Pages 235-248

  Zhou, Xuefeng ^a   Ruan, Jianhua ^a   Wang, Guandong ^a   Zhang, Weixiong ^a,b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

COMMON QUERY VOTING (COVOTE); MIRNA CORE; PROMOTER PREDICTION METHOD;

RNA;

EID: 34547481983     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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