Rational siRNA design for RNA interference

Nature Biotechnology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 326-330

  Reynolds, Angela ^a   Leake, Devin ^a   Boese, Queta ^a   Scaringe, Stephen ^a   Marshall, William S ^a   Khvorova, Anastasia ^a  

^a Dharmacon Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; ENZYMES; GENES; RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION; TARGET RECOGNITION;

BIOTECHNOLOGY;

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INVERTED REPEAT; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA BASE COMPOSITION; RNA DESIGN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY; RNA SYNTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYCLOPHILINS; DIPTERA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LUCIFERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDYLPROLYL ISOMERASE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 1542336952     PISSN: 10870156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nbt936     Document Type: Article

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