High-throughput RNAi screening by time-lapse imaging of live human cells

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 385-390

  Neumann, Beate ^a   Held, Michael ^a   Liebel, Urban ^a   Erfle, Holger ^a   Rogers, Phill ^a   Pepperkok, Rainer ^a   Ellenberg, Jan ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTONE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; DNA MICROARRAY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENOME; HELA CELL; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AUTOMATION; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FLUORESCENCE; GENOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HELA CELLS; HISTONES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 33646057010     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth876     Document Type: Article

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