siRNA selection criteria-Statistical analyses of applicability and significance

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 359, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 83-87

  Bradáč, Ivan ^a   Svobodová Vařeková, Radka ^a   Wacenovsky, Michael ^b   Škrdla, Michal ^c   Plchút, Martin ^a   Polčík, Martin ^a  

^a Bioinformatics group   (Czech Republic)

^b AS IL Bioinformatics   (Austria)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

mRNA; mRNA secondary structure; RISC enzyme; RNAi; siRNA selection criteria; Target Patterns

Indexed keywords

RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STABILITY;

BASE SEQUENCE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE SILENCING; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 34249790141     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.05.056     Document Type: Article

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