Mysirna-Designer: A workflow for efficient siRNA design

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Mysara, Mohamed ^a,b,d   Garibaldi, Jonathan M ^c   ElHefnawi, Mahmoud ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b Information Technology Institute   (Egypt)

^c Egypt Japan University of Science and Technology   (Egypt)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOPREDSI; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISR; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; I SCORE; MYSIRNA DESIGNER; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THERMOCOMPOSITION21; WORKFLOW; ALGORITHM; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG DESIGN; GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 80055056681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025642     Document Type: Article

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