Comparative analyses between retained introns and constitutively spliced introns in Arabidopsis thaliana using random forest and support vector machine

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Mao, Rui ^a,b   Raj Kumar, Praveen Kumar ^b   Guo, Cheng ^b   Zhang, Yang ^a   Liang, Chun ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA FLANKING REGION; EXON SKIPPING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRON; MACHINE LEARNING; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PSEUDOGENE; RANDOM FOREST; RETAINED INTRON; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLICED INTRON; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TRANSPOSON; UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGY; EXON; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RNA SPLICING;

ARABIDOPSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXONS; INTRONS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, MESSENGER; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84905828510     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104049     Document Type: Article

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