Plant organelle RNA editing and its specificity factors: enhancements of analyses and new database features in PREPACT 3.0.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Gene expression in plant chloroplasts and mitochondria is affected by RNA editing. Numerous C-to-U conversions, accompanied by reverse U-to-C exchanges in some plant clades, alter the genetic information encoded in the organelle genomes. Predicting and analyzing RNA editing, which ranges from only few sites in some species to thousands in other taxa, is bioinformatically demanding.

Results

Here, we present major enhancements and extensions of PREPACT, a WWW-based service for analysing, predicting and cataloguing plant-type RNA editing. New features in PREPACT's core include direct GenBank accession query input and options to restrict searches to candidate U-to-C editing or to sites where editing has been documented previously in the references. The reference datab

SUBMITTER: Lenz H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6029061 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature