Ab initio identification of human microRNAs based on structure motifs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Brameier, Markus ^a   Wiuf, Carsten ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AB INITIO PREDICTION; ENERGY DISTRIBUTIONS; LINEAR GENETIC PROGRAMMING; MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATIONS; SECONDARY STRUCTURES; SEQUENCE INFORMATIONS; STRUCTURE INFORMATION;

FREE ENERGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC PROGRAMMING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN MATCHING;

RNA;

MICRORNA;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EMPIRICISM; ENERGY TRANSFER; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE LIBRARY; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; BASE PAIRING; BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 39049169222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-478     Document Type: Article

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