Identifying and Searching for Conserved RNA Localisation Signals

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 714, Issue , 2011, Pages 447-466

  Hamilton, Russell S ^b   Davis, Ilan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; mRNA localisation; RNA secondary structure

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSPORT; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; INTRACELLULAR SPACE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 79960046667     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-005-8_27     Document Type: Chapter

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