WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences
Molecular Genetics Program
Dissertation Committee:
Sean Eddy, Chairperson
Warren Gish
Kathleen Hall
Steve Johnson
Tim Schedl
Michael Zuker
Combining New Computational and
Traditional
Experimental Methods
to Identify tRNA and snoRNA
Gene Families
by
Todd Michael Johnson Lowe
A dissertation presented to the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
of Washington University in
partial fulfillment of the
requirements for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy
August 1999
Saint Louis, Missouri