title: Primitive genome and RNA relics.
abstract: RNA relics in this paper are all presently known miRNAs, siRNAs and tRNAs, in reference to RNA rings coming from a primitive genome whose structure has been obtained as solution of a combinatorial variational problem. The consideration of such a reference allows the ordering of RNA relics using some circular distances and the discussion about the plausibility of the proposed primitive genome.
authors.affiliation: University Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, Faculty of Medicine, TIMC-IMAG, UMR UJF - C.N.R.S. 5525, La Tronche, F 38700 France. Jacques.Demongeot@imag.fr
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Demongeot
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D017124:Conserved Sequence; D016678:Genome / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D012313:RNA / Q000235:genetics*
chemical_list: D012313:RNA