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AIST TODAYNo.12 Spring 2004


Prediction of snoRNAs in Human Genome


Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are taken part in processing and base modification (2'-O-ribose methylation and pseudouridylation) in precursor ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA). In this research, we predict snoRNAs in human genome using computational sequence analysis methods which is named "SOKOS" using stochastic context free grammars (SCFGs). We also develop a Predicted Human Intron database produced from exons predicted by Gene Decoder which is a gene finding technology based on Hidden markov models (HMMs).

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Secondary structure of snoRNAs

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