High-throughput RNAi screening in cultured cells: A user's guide

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 373-384

  Echeverri, Christophe J ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^b  

^a Cenix BioScience GmbH   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REAGENT; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SYNTHETIC SMALL INTERFERING RNA LIKE MOLECULE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BOOK; CELL CULTURE; CELL LINE; CELL TYPE; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOSS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LOSS OF FUNCTION SCREEN; MAMMAL CELL; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY CONTROL; READ OUT METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SELECTION BASED SCREENING; SYSTEMATIC SCREENING;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646187810     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1836     Document Type: Review

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