Detecting RNA modifications in the epitranscriptome: Predict and validate

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 275-291

  Helm, Mark ^a   Motorin, Yuri ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EPITRANSCRIPTOME; RNA; TRANSCRIPTOME; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOTINYLATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DATA MINING; DNA MODIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION; REVIEW; RNA MODIFICATION; RNA SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RNA PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EPIGENOMICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; RNA; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85013117867     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.169     Document Type: Review

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