Bayesian inference of microRNA targets from sequence and expression data

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 550-563

  Huang, Jim C ^a   Morris, Quaid D ^a   Frey, Brendan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Expression microarray; Gene regulation; MicroRNA

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 92; PROTEIN BCL 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENMIR MODEL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 34447288056     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2007.R002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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