RNA systems biology: Uniting functional discoveries and structural tools to understand global roles of RNAs

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 182-191

  Strobel, Eric J ^a   Watters, Kyle E ^a   Loughrey, David ^a   Lucks, Julius B ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; RNA;

CELLULAR PROCESS; GENE EXPRESSION NETWORK; NON-CODING RNAS; PROBING TECHNOLOGIES; RNA STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL LANDSCAPES; STRUCTURAL TOOLS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; RIBOZYME; TRANSCRIPTOME; RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CELL METABOLISM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PROBE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; RIBOSWITCH; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTOMICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOME; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME; HUMANS; RNA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84964467538     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2016.03.019     Document Type: Review

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