Systems biology reveals microRNA-mediated gene regulation

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue JUNE, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Yuka ^a   Kanai, Akio ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory network; Immunoprecipitation; Microrna; Proteome; Systems biology; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053054678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2011.00029     Document Type: Review

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