Comparison of approaches for rational siRNA design leading to a new efficient and transparent method

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Matveeva, Olga ^a   Nechipurenko, Yury ^b   Rossi, Leo ^a   Moore, Barry ^a   Sætrom, Pål ^c   Ogurtsov, Aleksey Y ^d   Atkins, John F ^a,e   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ENGELHARDT INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOSINE; GUANINE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CALCULATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GENETIC DATABASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RNA STRUCTURE; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; EVALUATION; INTERNET; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BASE COMPOSITION; DATABASES, GENETIC; INTERNET; LINEAR MODELS; NUCLEOTIDES; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34250309149     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm088     Document Type: Article

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