The design of optimal therapeutic small interfering RNA molecules targeting diverse strains of influenza a virus

Bioinformatics

Volumn 27, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 3364-3370

  ElHefnawi, Mahmoud ^a,b,c   Hassan, Nafisa ^b   Kamar, Mona ^b   Siam, Rania ^d   Remoli, Anna Lisa ^e   El Azab, Iman ^f   AlAidy, Osama ^g   Marsili, Giulia ^e   Sgarbanti, Marco ^e  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

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

^d The American University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^e ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^f Cairo University   (Egypt)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN HEK293; CLASSIFICATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; PHYSIOLOGY;

HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE;

EID: 83355174912     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr555     Document Type: Article

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