SECISaln, a web-based tool for the creation of structure-based alignments of eukaryotic SECIS elements

Bioinformatics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 674-675

  Chapple, Charles E ^a   Guigó, Roderic ^a,b   Krol, Alain ^c  

^a INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^c INST DE BIOL MOLEC ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; SELENOCYSTEINE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTE; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA STRUCTURE; SELENOCYSTEINE INSERTION ELEMENT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; INTERNET; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RNA; SELENOPROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 61449255521     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp020     Document Type: Article

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