Computational prediction of splicing regulatory elements shared by Tetrapoda organisms

BMC Genomics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 508-

  Churbanov, Alexander ^a   Vořechovský, Igor ^b   Hicks, Chindo ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENETIC CONSERVATION; INTRON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; TETRAPODA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXONS; HUMANS; INTRONS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VERTEBRATES;

TETRAPODA;

EID: 70749109531     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-10-508     Document Type: Article

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