Mammalian microRNA prediction through a support vector machine model of sequence and structure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Sheng, Ying ^a,b   Engström, Pär G ^a,b   Lenhard, Boris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VALIDITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC VECTORS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICE; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 41549152081     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0000946     Document Type: Article

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