Prediction of Conserved Precursors of miRNAs and Their Mature Forms by Integrating Position-Specific Structural Features

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Terai, Goro ^a,b   Okida, Hiroaki ^a   Asai, Kiyoshi ^b,c   Mituyama, Toutai ^b  

^a Advanced Technology Research and Development Institute   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA PRECURSOR;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CIONA INTESTINALIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN GENOME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIRRIM2 METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CIONA INTESTINALIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VECTORS; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA PRECURSORS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CIONA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 84866051915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044314     Document Type: Article

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