MicroRNAs and cancer - The search begins!

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-77

  Oulas, Anastasis ^a,b   Reczko, Martin ^c   Poirazi, Panayioya ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cancer; Computational prediction; MicroRNA genes

Indexed keywords

CANCER; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTION; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPRESSION LEVELS; EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; HUMAN TUMORS; MICRORNA GENES; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SIGNATURES; NON-CODING RNA (NCRNA); PROTEIN-CODING GENES; REGULATORY UNITS; SEARCH SPACES; TUMOR SUPPRESSORS; TUMORIGENESIS;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLONING; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ONCOGENIC VIRUSES; RNA; TUMORS;

GENES;

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; SYNTENY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PHYLOGENY; SYNTENY;

EID: 63449097593     PISSN: 10897771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITB.2008.2007086     Document Type: Review

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