Computational discovery of human coding and non-coding transcripts with conserved splice sites

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1894-1900

  Rose, Dominic ^a,b   Hiller, Michael ^c   Schutt, Katharina ^a,d,g   Hackermüller, Jörg ^a,d,g   Backofen, Rolf ^b   Stadler, Peter F ^a,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^f SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICE SITES; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79960134530     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr314     Document Type: Article

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