From genome to phenome - RNAi library screening and hit characterization using signaling pathway analysis

Current Opinion in Drug Discovery and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 231-239

  Chatterjee Kishore, Moitreyee ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Annotation; Bioinformatics; Hit prioritization; Library screens; RNA interference; RNAi

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG TARGETING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; SCREENING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; GENE LIBRARY; GENOME; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33645029604     PISSN: 13676733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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