From structure prediction to genomic screens for novel non-coding RNAs

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Gorodkin, Jan ^a   Hofacker, Ivo L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GENES; GENOME; TOUCH SCREENS;

BASE PAIRS; FOLDINGS; GENOMICS; KEY FEATURE; LARGE PARTS; RNA STRUCTURES; SINGLE SEQUENCES; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURE PREDICTION; STRUCTURE-BASED;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE LOCATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOME ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA EXTRACTION; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; STRUCTURAL GENOMICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REVIEW; RNA FOLDING;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA FOLDING; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 80052339890     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002100     Document Type: Article

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