A k-mer scheme to predict piRNAs and characterize locust piRNAs

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 771-776

  Zhang, Yi ^a,b   Wang, Xianhui ^a   Kang, Le ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCUSTA MIGRATORIA; ORTHOPTERA; RATTUS;

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; GRASSHOPPER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RETROPOSON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GRASSHOPPERS; HUMANS; RETROELEMENTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 79952589852     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr016     Document Type: Article

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