miTarget: MicroRNA target gene prediction using a support vector machine

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Kim, Sung Kyu ^a   Nam, Jin Wu ^a   Rhee, Je Keun ^a   Lee, Wha Jin ^a   Zhang, Byoung Tak ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRNA TARGETS; NON-CODING RNAS; POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; PREDICTION METHODS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION KERNELS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING EXAMPLE;

FORECASTING; GENES; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TOOLS;

RNA;

MICRORNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE TARGETING; GENE VECTOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INTERNET; MACHINE; PREDICTION; RNA BINDING; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CHEMISTRY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 33749645474     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-411     Document Type: Article

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