Identification of MicroRNA Precursors with Support Vector Machine and String Kernel

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 121-128

  Xu, Jian Hua ^a   Li, Fei ^b   Sun, Qiu Feng ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

microRNA; precursor; string kernel; support vector machine; weighted Levenshtein distance

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; KERNEL METHOD; NONHUMAN; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA PRECURSORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 54349089811     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(08)60027-3     Document Type: Article

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