SiPRED: Predicting siRNA efficacy using various characteristic methods

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pan, Wei Jie ^a   Chen, Chi Wei ^a   Chu, Yen Wei ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENETIC ALGORITHM; INTERNET; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIPRED; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENE SILENCING; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 80755152351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027602     Document Type: Article

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