On the relationship between GC content and the number of predicted microRNA binding sites by MicroInspector

Computational Biology and Chemistry

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 222-226

  Davis, Nicole ^a   Biddlecom, Natasha ^a   Hecht, David ^a   Fogel, Gary B ^b  

^a Southwestern College   (United States)

^b NATURAL SELECTION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

GC content; MicroInspector; MicroRNA; Target prediction

Indexed keywords

BINDING SITES; MICROORGANISMS; RNA;

MICROINSPECTOR; TARGET PREDICTION;

BIOINFORMATICS;

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; BINDING SITES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 43249087179     PISSN: 14769271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiolchem.2008.02.004     Document Type: Article

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