Non-coding RNA detection methods combined to improve usability, reproducibility and precision

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Raasch, Peter ^a   Schmitz, Ulf ^a   Patenge, Nadja ^b   Vera, Julio ^a   Kreikemeyer, Bernd ^b   Wolkenhauer, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; DETECTION METHODS; EXTENSIBLE FRAMEWORK; GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE; GUIDING EXPERIMENT; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; NATURAL APPROACHES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

DETECTORS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; TOOLS;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

BACTERIAL RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETIC DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENOME, BACTERIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77957129677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-491     Document Type: Article

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