siDirect: Highly effective, target-specific siRNA design software for mammalian RNA interference

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 32, Issue WEB SERVER ISS., 2004, Pages

  Naito, Yuki ^a   Yamada, Tomoyuki ^a   Ui Tei, Kumiko ^a   Morishita, Shinichi ^a   Saigo, Kaoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS HYBRIDIZATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOMICS; INTERNET; MAMMAL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; INTERNET; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 3242889236     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh442     Document Type: Article

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