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SUBMITTER: Bonnet E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC509231 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bonnet Eric E Wuyts Jan J Rouzé Pierre P Van de Peer Yves Y
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20040722 31
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an extensive class of tiny RNA molecules that regulate the expression of target genes by means of complementary base pair interactions. Although the first miRNAs were discovered in Caenorhabditis elegans, >300 miRNAs were recently documented in animals and plants, both by cloning methods and computational predictions. We present a genome-wide computational approach to detect miRNA genes in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Our method is based on the conservation of short se ...[more]