Bioinformatics Approaches for Studying Untranslated Regions of mRNAs

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 419, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-21

  Bagga, Paramjeet S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics Of UTR; MRNA cis acting elements; RNA bioinformatics; RNA motif databases; RNA motif prediction; RNA regulatory motifs; Untranslated regions; UTR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

EID: 42949105534     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-033-1_1     Document Type: Article

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