In silico tools for splicing defect prediction: A survey from the viewpoint of end users

Genetics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 497-503

  Jian, Xueqiu ^a   Boerwinkle, Eric ^a   Liu, Xiaoming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; End user; In silico prediction tool; Medical genetics; Splicing consensus region; Splicing mutation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONSENSUS; HUMAN; MEDICAL GENETICS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SPLICING DEFECT; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

RNA PRECURSOR;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA SPLICING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84903752213     PISSN: 10983600     EISSN: 15300366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/gim.2013.176     Document Type: Review

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