Lessons from genetics: interpreting complex phenotypes in RNAi screens

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 483-489

  Sacher, Raphael ^a   Stergiou, Lilli ^a   Pelkmans, Lucas ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLATHRIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CELL CONTACT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ENDOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPID RAFT; MACHINE LEARNING; MEMBRANE VESICLE; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PINOCYTOSIS; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ANIMALS; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 47149099717     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2008.06.002     Document Type: Review

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