A combined computational-experimental approach predicts human microRNA targets

Genes and Development

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1165-1178

  Kiriakidou, Marianthi ^a,b   Nelson, Peter T ^a   Kouranov, Andrei ^b   Fitziev, Petko ^b,c   Bouyioukos, Costas ^b   Mourelatos, Zissimos ^a   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Argonaute; Bioinformatics; MicroRNA; MicroRNA targets; MicroRNP; RNAi

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; BIOINFORMATICS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TARGETING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENES, REPORTER; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; MICE; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 2442672918     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1184704     Document Type: Article

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