Complete alternative splicing events are bubbles in splicing graphs

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1117-1140

  Sammeth, Michael ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

Author keywords

Exons; Gene expression; Genomes; Introns; RNA

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXON; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; HUMAN; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; EXONS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA;

EUKARYOTA; MURINAE;

EID: 70349208979     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2009.0108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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