Robust Identification of Noncoding RNA from Transcriptomes Requires Phylogenetically-Informed Sampling

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Lindgreen, Stinus ^a,b   Umu, Sinan Uğur ^b   Lai, Alicia Sook Wei ^b   Eldai, Hisham ^b   Liu, Wenting ^b   McGimpsey, Stephanie ^b   Wheeler, Nicole E ^b   Biggs, Patrick J ^c   Thomson, Nick R ^d   Barquist, Lars ^d,e   Poole, Anthony M ^b,c   Gardner, Paul P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^d WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; GENES; PHYLOGENETIC;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSING; FUNCTIONAL OUTPUTS; GENE-REGULATION; GENOMICS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; PHYLOGENETICS; ROBUST IDENTIFICATION; TRANSCRIPTOMES; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

RNA;

TRANSCRIPTOME; UNTRANSLATED RNA; ARCHAEAL RNA; BACTERIAL RNA;

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GOLDILOCKS ZONE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; PROCEDURES;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, ARCHAEAL; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84908336343     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003907     Document Type: Article

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