Accurate microRNA target prediction correlates with protein repression levels

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 295-

  Maragkakis, Manolis ^a,b   Alexiou, Panagiotis ^a,c   Papadopoulos, Giorgio L ^a   Reczko, Martin ^a,d   Dalamagas, Theodore ^e   Giannopoulos, George ^e,f   Goumas, George ^f   Koukis, Evangelos ^f   Kourtis, Kornilios ^f   Simossis, Victor A ^a   Sethupathy, Praveen ^g   Vergoulis, Thanasis ^e,f   Koziris, Nectarios ^f   Sellis, Timos ^e,f   Tsanakas, Panagiotis ^f   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^a,h  

^a BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^d Synaptic Ltd   (Greece)

^e INSTITUTE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (Greece)

^f NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^g NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EXPERIMENTAL IDENTIFICATION; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; MICRORNA TARGET PREDICTIONS; PROTEIN PRODUCTION; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; RECOGNITION ELEMENT; TARGET GENE EXPRESSION; TRANSLATION REPRESSION;

RNA;

MICRORNA; PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70449372292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-295     Document Type: Article

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