Selection of Antisense Oligonucleotides on the Basis of Genomic Frequency of the Target Sequence

Antisense Research and Development

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 53-65

  Han, Jian ^a   Zhu, Zhou ^b   Hsu, Chuancheih ^a   Finley, Wayne H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; OLIGOMER;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CHICKEN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMAL; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 0028025205     PISSN: 10505261     EISSN: 15578526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ard.1994.4.53     Document Type: Article

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