Informatics Approach to the Rational Design of siRNA Libraries

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 672, Issue , 2011, Pages 341-358

  Ebalunode, Jerry O ^a   Jagun, Charles ^a   Zheng, Weifan ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Cheminformatics; Gene silencing; QSAR; RNAi; siRNA

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE LIBRARY; GENE SILENCING; INFORMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 79952116683     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60761-839-3_14     Document Type: Chapter

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