Establishing legitimacy and function in the new transcriptome

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 424-436

  van Bakel, Harm ^a   Hughes, Timothy R ^a  

^a Banting and Best Department of Medical Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hidden transcriptome; Noncoding RNA; RNA seq; Tiling arrays; Transcription

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYCLIN D1; LARGE INTERVENING NON CODING RNA; MICRORNA; PASRNA; PIWI INTERACTING RNA; POLYADENYLATED RNA; QIRNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NFAT; TRANSCRIPTOME; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; DNA DAMAGE; EXON; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; TRANS SPLICING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 70449723389     PISSN: 14739550     EISSN: 14774062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elp037     Document Type: Article

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