microTSS: Accurate microRNA transcription start site identification reveals a significant number of divergent pri-miRNAs

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Georgakilas, Georgios ^a   Vlachos, Ioannis S ^a,b   Paraskevopoulou, Maria D ^a   Yang, Peter ^c   Zhang, Yuhong ^c   Economides, Aris N ^c   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY RNA; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; DIVERGENT PRI MICRORNA; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; MICRORNA; RNA PRECURSOR; SMALL NUCLEOLAR RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; DROSHA PROTEIN, MOUSE; MESSENGER RNA; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DATA ACQUISITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; PROTEIN; RNA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONDITIONAL BY INVERSION METHODOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

EID: 84923263791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6700     Document Type: Article

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