Current trends in pseudogene detection and characterization

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 112-119

  Rouchka, Eric Christian ^a   Cha, I Elizabeth ^a  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

Author keywords

Disabled pseudogenes; Duplicated pseudogenes; Gene prediction; Processed pseudogenes; Pseudogene

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

'CURRENT; AB INITIO; DISABLED PSEUDOGENE; DUPLICATED PSEUDOGENE; FUNCTIONAL GENES; GENE PREDICTION; PROCESSED PSEUDOGENE; PSEUDOGENE; TRANSCRIPTIONAL UNITS;

GENES;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; GENE CONTROL; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY RECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; RETROPOSON; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREND STUDY;

EID: 70350117875     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489309788184792     Document Type: Review

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