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A Nonsequencing Approach for the Rapid Detection of RNA Editing
Published on: April 21, 2022
Bioinformatic approaches for identification of A-to-I editing sites
1Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel. elieis@post.tau.ac.il
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology
|July 14, 2011
Abstract:
The first discoveries of mammalian A-to-I RNA editing have been serendipitous. In conjunction with the fast advancement in sequencing technology, systematic methods for prediction and detection of editing sites have been developed, leading to the discovery of thousands of A-to-I editing sites. Here we review the state-of-the-art of these methods and discuss future directions.
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