Survey and Summary: Current tools for the identification of miRNA genes and their targets

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2419-2433

  Mendes, N D ^a,b,c   Freitas, A T ^b   Sagot, M F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b INESC ID   (Portugal)

^c INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICER; EXPORTIN 5; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; PROTEIN DROSHA; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOGENESIS; COMPUTER PREDICTION; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; INTRON; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROPROCESSOR; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; GENE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 65849520676     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp145     Document Type: Review

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