Conserved secondary structures in Aspergillus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  McGuire, Abigail Manson ^a   Galagan, James E ^a  

^a BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; FUNGAL RNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BASE PAIRING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXON; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; GENOME; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METABOLISM;

ASPERGILLUS; FUNGI;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; ASPERGILLUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA, FUNGAL; SOFTWARE;

EID: 50949112120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0002812     Document Type: Article

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