Systematic genome-wide screens of gene function

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 11-22

  Carpenter, Anne E ^a   Sabatini, David M ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; GENE FUNCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTERNET; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENES, REPORTER; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA INTERFERENCE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MELANOGASTER;

EID: 0346728473     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1248     Document Type: Review

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