This website started as an attempt to see if some sequences from the "RNA World" (for example, ribozymes) might have been "fossilized" or conserved as DNA sequences. The search eventually expanded to include sequences shared by viroids, retroviral kissing loops, G-RNAs, promoters, protein binding sites, conserved sequence blocks and intron/exon junctions..
The name "snippets" is meant to describe short lengths of nucleic acids and should not be confused with SNPs; single nucleotide polymorphisms or "Snips".
Snippets 2 compares known hammerhead ribozyme conserved sequences and RNA polymerase binding sites at the transcription initiation sites of open reading frames in Human Papilloma Virus 16.
Snippets 4 compares conserved viroid hammerhead sequences and the polymerase binding site of the Methanococcus transcription initiation complex
Snippets 5 compares HIV-2 and HIV-1 Kissing Loop Sequences and those found in some viroids
Snippets 6 is a more generalized look at small sequences that can be found in many places
Snippets 8 shows a comparison of sequences from "illegitimate translocations" of hematological neoplasias with mitochondrial Conserved Sequence blocks
Snippets 9a and 9b compares "illegitimate translocation" sequences with those of kinetoplast mitochondrial RNA primed origins of replication
Snippets 10 compares "illegitimate translocation" sequences with those of transfer RNA primers
Snippets 11 Compares the sequence of Peach Latent Mosaic Viroid with those of primer RNAs, the origins of replication of human mitochodria, and Nicotiana tabacum, with two V genes of human immunoglobulins and other sequences
Snippets 12 Compares hammerhead ribozyme conserved sequences with kinetoplast conserved sequences and transcription factor nucleotide binding sites.
Snippets 14 Compares various tRNAs with a 5S rRNA through a g:u intermediate
Snippets 15 Compares translocation junctions with pre-tRNA intron junction sites
Snippets 15a Compares "illegitimate translocations" of hematological neoplasias with pre-tRNA intron junctions sites, pre-16s rRNA splice sites and conserved sequences of kinteoplastid minicircle replication sites.
Snippets 16 compares Telomere template sequences to retroviral tRNA primers, reverse transcription sites and more through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 17 Compares many different sequences with the Universally Conserved Sequence Block 3 of kinetoplastid minicircles through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 18 Spliceosomes, CRISPR repeats. snRNAs and Trypanosome Conserved Sequence Blocks 1, 2, and 3 as seen through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 19 MicroRNA and Hammerhead Ribozyme Sequences through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 20 A Comparison of kinetoplastid guide RNAs (gRNAs) versus T cell receptor recombination signal sequences, and immunoglobulin recombination signal sequences (RSS) using a G:U intermediate
Snippets 21 CpG dinucleotide "hot spot" breakpoints in bcl-2 translocations through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 22 Spliceosome conserved sequences seen through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 23 Open Reading Frames versus Hammerhead Ribozyme sequences through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 24 Open Reading Frames versus the Kozak Sequence through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 25 Open Reading Frames versus the sequence of tRNAinitiator methionine through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 26 Translation start sites versus reverse transcription start site sequences of gamma and delta retroviruses through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 27 5S rRNA versus cDNA translation start sites through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 28 Translation start sites versus reverse transcription start site sequences of lentiviruses through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 29 Conserved Kinetoplast sequence CSB-3 vs vertebrate translation start sites (ATG) through a G:U intermediate
Snippets 30 A trend! tRNAs through a G:U intermediate
The author wishes to thank Lee Lichtenstein, M.S. for maintaining computers and posting the Snippets webpages. If anyone uses any information from this site, please acknowledge A. C. Lichtenstein, "Snippets". Thank you.
In memory of Carl Lichtenstein, Ph.D. (1942-2011)
