Reliability analysis of the Ahringer Caenorhabditis elegans RNAi feeding library: A guide for genome-wide screens

BMC Genomics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Qu, Wubin ^a   Ren, Changhong ^a   Li, Yuan ^a   Shi, Jinping ^a   Zhang, Jiye ^a   Wang, Xiaolei ^b   Hang, Xingyi ^a   Lu, Yiming ^a   Zhao, Dongsheng ^b   Zhang, Chenggang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^b Beijing Institute of Health Service and Medical Information   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED RNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LIBRARY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDICTION; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RELIABILITY; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GENOME, HELMINTH; GENOMIC LIBRARY; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, DOUBLE-STRANDED; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 79953228554     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-170     Document Type: Article

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