DEQOR: A web-based tool for the design and quality control of siRNAs

Nucleic Acids Research

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

  Henschel, Andreas ^b   Buchholz, Frank ^a   Habermann, Bianca ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^b Scionics Computer Innovation GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; GUANINE; NUCLEOTIDE; RIBONUCLEASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ENZYMATIC DEGRADATION; EXON; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HYDROLYSIS; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DESIGN; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNTHESIS;

INTERNET; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 3242891277     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkh408     Document Type: Article

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