Characterization of statistical features for plant microRNA prediction

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Thakur, Vivek ^a,b   Wanchana, Samart ^a,b   Xu, Mercedes ^a   Bruskiewich, Richard ^b   Quick, William P ^b   Mosig, Axel ^a   Zhu, Xin Guang ^a  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^b INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; PLANT RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; MAIZE; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; RNA STRUCTURE; SEEDLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ZEA MAYS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MICRORNAS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANTS; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 79951549936     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-108     Document Type: Article

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