Design and evaluation of genome-wide libraries for RNA interference screens

Genome Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Horn, Thomas ^a   Sandmann, Thomas ^a   Boutros, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA; LIPID PHOSPHATASE; PHOSPHATASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; TRIBOLIUM; VALIDATION PROCESS; ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; BIOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMIC LIBRARY; HUMANS; PHOSPHOPROTEIN PHOSPHATASES; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE; TRIBOLIUM;

EID: 78049437928     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2010-11-6-r61     Document Type: Article

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