Most Alternative Isoforms Are Not Functionally Important

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 408-410

  Tress, Michael L ^a   Abascal, Federico ^b   Valencia, Alfonso ^c  

^a Structural Biology and Biocomputing Programme   (Spain)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c BARCELONA SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER   (Spain)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; biological complexity; mass spectrometry; selection

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; NEUREXIN; PROTEOME;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; EXON SKIPPING; GENE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; HUMAN; LETTER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOMICS; PURIFYING SELECTION; RIBOSOME; GENETICS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS;

EID: 85018735280     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2017.04.002     Document Type: Letter

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