RNAs everywhere: genome‐wide annotation of structured RNAsAll authors contributed equally to this article

Autor: Backofen, Rolf, Bernhart, Stephan H., Flamm, Christoph, Fried, Claudia, Fritzsch, Guido, Hackermüller, Jörg, Hertel, Jana, Hofacker, Ivo L., Missal, Kristin, Mosig, Axel, Prohaska, Sonja J., Rose, Dominic, Stadler, Peter F., Tanzer, Andrea, Washietl, Stefan, Will, Sebastian
Zdroj: Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution; January 2007, Vol. 308 Issue: 1 p1-25, 25p
Abstrakt: Starting with the discovery of microRNAs and the advent of genome‐wide transcriptomics, non‐protein‐coding transcripts have moved from a fringe topic to a central field research in molecular biology. In this contribution we review the state of the art of “computational RNomics”, i.e., the bioinformatics approaches to genome‐wide RNA annotation. Instead of rehashing results from recently published surveys in detail, we focus here on the open problem in the field, namely (functional) annotation of the plethora of putative RNAs. A series of exploratory studies are used to provide non‐trivial examples for the discussion of some of the difficulties. J. Exp. Zool. (Mol. Dev. Evol.) 308B, 2007. © 2006 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
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