A guide through present computational approaches for the identification of mammalian microRNA targets

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 881-886

  Sethupathy, Praveen ^a   Megraw, Molly ^a   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA BINDING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE TARGETING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33750318273     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth954     Document Type: Article

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