Computational analysis of mouse piRNA sequence and biogenesis

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2219-2227

  Betel, Doron ^a   Sheridan, Robert ^a   Marks, Debora S ^b   Sander, Chris ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; MAMMALS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYZES; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DOUBLE STRANDS; ENZYMATIC PROCESSING; INVERTED REPEAT; QUASI-RANDOM; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCES; SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE DIVERSITY;

RNA;

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PACHYTENE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; SPERMATOGENESIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TESTIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOGENESIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 36949016056     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030222     Document Type: Article

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