Is Evolutionary Conservation a Useful Predictor for Cancer Long Noncoding RNAs? Insights from the Cancer LncRNA Census 3
(This article belongs to the Section Long Non-Coding RNA)
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results
3. Discussion
4. Materials and Methods
4.1. Literature Search and LnCompare for Feature and Repeat Analysis
4.2. EVlncRNA Non-Cancer lncRNA Dataset
4.3. Conservation Scores
4.4. Publication Year
4.5. Orthologue Prediction
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Vancura, A.; Gutierrez, A.H.; Hennig, T.; Pulido-Quetglas, C.; Slack, F.J.; Johnson, R.; Haefliger, S. Is Evolutionary Conservation a Useful Predictor for Cancer Long Noncoding RNAs? Insights from the Cancer LncRNA Census 3. Non-Coding RNA 2022, 8, 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8060082
Vancura A, Gutierrez AH, Hennig T, Pulido-Quetglas C, Slack FJ, Johnson R, Haefliger S. Is Evolutionary Conservation a Useful Predictor for Cancer Long Noncoding RNAs? Insights from the Cancer LncRNA Census 3. Non-Coding RNA. 2022; 8(6):82. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8060082
Chicago/Turabian StyleVancura, Adrienne, Alejandro H. Gutierrez, Thorben Hennig, Carlos Pulido-Quetglas, Frank J. Slack, Rory Johnson, and Simon Haefliger. 2022. "Is Evolutionary Conservation a Useful Predictor for Cancer Long Noncoding RNAs? Insights from the Cancer LncRNA Census 3" Non-Coding RNA 8, no. 6: 82. https://doi.org/10.3390/ncrna8060082