MicroSNiPer: A web tool for prediction of SNP effects on putative microRNA targets

Human Mutation

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1223-1232

  Barenboim, Maxim ^a   Zoltick, Brad J ^a   Guo, Yongjian ^b   Weinberger, Daniel R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

3'UTR; Computational prediction; FASTA program; Gene expression; MicroRNA; SNP

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTORS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICE; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 78049420577     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21349     Document Type: Article

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