RNA processing and its regulation: Global insights into biological networks

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 75-87

  Licatalosi, Donny D ^a   Darnell, Robert B ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

BIOINFORMATICS; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLYADENYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYADENYLATION; RNA; RNA EDITING; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 72849106592     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg2673     Document Type: Review

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