Identifying (non-)coding RNAs and small peptides: Challenges and opportunities

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 103-112

  Pauli, Andrea ^a   Valen, Eivind ^a   Schier, Alexander F ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apela ELABELA Toddler; Coding potential; Gene annotation; NcRNAs; Peptides; Short ORFs; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

DANIO RERIO;

MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; ZEBRA FISH;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; ZEBRAFISH;

EID: 84919452464     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201400103     Document Type: Article

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