An algorithm for selection of functional siRNA sequences

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 316, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1050-1058

  Amarzguioui, Mohammed ^a,b   Prydz, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Duplex instability; GC content; RNAi; Sequence motifs; SiRNA; Target sequence selection

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 1642273831     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.02.157     Document Type: Article

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