Ab initio identification of novel regulatory elements in the genome of Trypanosoma brucei by Bayesian inference on sequence segmentation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Kelly, Steven ^a,b   Wickstead, Bill ^c,d   Maini, Philip K ^a,b   Gull, Keith ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; PROTOZOAL DNA; PROTOZOAL RNA; SPACER DNA;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; NONHUMAN; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANS SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHROMOSOME; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYADENYLATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING;

EUKARYOTA; KINETOPLASTIDA; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOMES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; HUMANS; NUCLEOTIDES; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; POLYADENYLATION; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA SPLICE SITES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANS-SPLICING; TRYPANOSOMA BRUCEI BRUCEI;

EID: 80053453658     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025666     Document Type: Article

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