Computational approaches towards understanding human long non-coding RNA biology

Bioinformatics

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2241-2251

  Jalali, Saakshi ^a,b   Kapoor, Shruti ^a,b   Sivadas, Ambily ^a   Bhartiya, Deeksha ^a,b   Scaria, Vinod ^a,b  

^a CSIR INSTITUTE OF GENOMICS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY   (India)

^b ACADEMY OF SCIENTIFIC AND INNOVATIVE RESEARCH ACSIR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

DISEASES; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY;

DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NEOPLASMS; RNA, LONG NONCODING;

EID: 84941702202     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv148     Document Type: Review

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