A computational approach for genome-wide mapping of splicing factor binding sites

Genome Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Akerman, Martin ^a   David Eden, Hilda ^a   Pinter, Ron Y ^a   Mandel Gutfreund, Yael ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SPLICING FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; FETUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLICING FACTOR FINDER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME MAP; EXON; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ALGORITHMS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 64849109747     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-3-r30     Document Type: Article

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