BAIUCAS: A novel BLAST-based algorithm for the identification of upstream open reading frames with conserved amino acid sequences and its application to the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2231-2241

  Takahashi, Hiro ^a   Takahashi, Anna ^a   Naito, Satoshi ^b   Onouchi, Hitoshi ^b  

^a CHUBU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA; HEXAPODA; MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID; MESSENGER RNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENOME; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENOME, PLANT; GENOMICS; OPEN READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84865535621     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bts303     Document Type: Article

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