Design and implementation of high-throughput RNAi screens in cultured Drosophila cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2245-2264

  Ramadan, Nadire ^a   Flockhart, Ian ^a   Booker, Matthew ^a   Perrimon, Norbert ^a,b   Mathey Prevot, Bernard ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL SCREENING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INSECT CELL CULTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PURIFICATION; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CELLS, CULTURED; DROSOPHILA; GENE LIBRARY; GENOMICS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED;

EID: 38449084517     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.250     Document Type: Article

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