Improving performance of mammalian microRNA target prediction

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Liu, Hui ^a   Yue, Dong ^b   Chen, Yidong ^c   Gao, Shou Jiang ^c   Huang, Yufei ^b,c  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; COMPUTATIONAL PREDICTIONS; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATIONS; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; MICRORNA TARGET PREDICTIONS; MIRNA TARGET PREDICTIONS; ROBUST PERFORMANCE;

ALGORITHMS; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

RNA;

MAMMALIA;

MICRORNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PROTEOMICS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; GENE SILENCING; GENOME; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; PROTEOMICS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 77956846500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-476     Document Type: Article

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