Studying RNA homology and conservation with infernal: From single sequences to RNA families

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages 12.13.1-12.13.25

  Barquist, Lars ^a,b   Burge, Sarah W ^b   Gardner, Paul P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alignment; Conservation; Covariance model; Homology; ncRNA; Rfam; RNA

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA; RNA MICA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE MODEL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA HOMOLOGY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; XENORHABDUS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

ALGORITHMS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85019972385     PISSN: 19343396     EISSN: 1934340X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpbi.4     Document Type: Article

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