Evaluation of online miRNA resources for biomedical applications

Genes to Cells

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-27

  Tan Gana, Neil H ^a   Victoriano, Ann F B ^a   Okamoto, Takashi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; BIOMEDICINE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84855200385     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2443.2011.01564.x     Document Type: Review

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