Genomic screening with RNAi: Results and challenges

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 79, Issue , 2010, Pages 37-64

  Mohr, Stephanie ^a   Bakal, Chris ^a,b   Perrimon, Norbert ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

bioinformatics; cell biology; Drosophila; high throughput screening

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; WNT PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA ANALYSIS; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; DROSOPHILA; FUNGUS; GENOMICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOON; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; STRESS; VIRUS; ANIMAL; GENE; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOME;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; GENES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GENOME; HUMANS; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 77953626646     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 00664154     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060408-092949     Document Type: Review

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