Computational identification of microRNAs and their targets

Birth Defects Research Part C - Embryo Today: Reviews

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-128

  Yoon, Sungroh ^a,c   De Micheli, Giovanni ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c 353 Serra Mall ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA;

ALGORITHM; BINDING SITE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLONING; COMPUTER SYSTEM; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HUMAN; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; VIRUS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICRORNAS; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33747126827     PISSN: 1542975X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bdrc.20067     Document Type: Review

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