Improving the prediction of human microRNA target genes by using ensemble algorithm

FEBS Letters

Volumn 581, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1587-1593

  Yan, Xingqi ^a   Chao, Tengfei ^a   Tu, Kang ^b   Zhang, Yu ^a   Xie, Lu ^b   Gong, Yanhua ^a   Yuan, Jiangang ^a   Qiang, Boqin ^a   Peng, Xiaozhong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

Author keywords

Machine learning; Prediction; Target gene

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MACHINE LEARNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION;

EID: 34047259186     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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