Journal article
MAISTAS: a tool for automatic structural evaluation of alternative splicing products
Motivation: Analysis of the human genome revealed that the amount of transcribed sequence is an order of magnitude greater than the number of predicted and well-characterized genes. A sizeable fraction of these transcripts is related to alternatively spliced forms of known protein coding genes. Inspection of the alternatively spliced transcripts identified in the pilot phase of the ENCODE project has clearly shown that often their structure might substantially differ from that of other isoforms of the same gene, and therefore that they might perform unrelated functions, or that they might even not correspond to a functional protein.
Identifying these cases is obviously relevant for the functional assignment of gene products and for the interpretation of the effect of variations in the corresponding proteins.
Language: | Undetermined |
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Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Year: | 2011 |
Pages: | 1625-1629 |
ISSN: | 13674811 , 14602059 and 13674803 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr198 |