Large-scale study of long non-coding RNA functions based on structure and expression features

Science China Life Sciences

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 953-959

  Zhao, Yi ^b   Wang, Jian ^c   Chen, XiaoWei ^a   Luo, HaiTao ^b   Zhao, YunJie ^c   Xiao, Yi ^c   Chen, RenSheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

expression; function; non coding RNA; structure

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA FOLDING;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84884925620     PISSN: 16747305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11427-013-4556-3     Document Type: Review

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