Z' factor including siRNA design quality parameter in RNAi screening experiments

RNA Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 624-632

  Mazur, Sławomir ^a   Kozak, Karol ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; High content screening; Off targets; Quality control; RNAi; RNAi libraries

Indexed keywords

OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; Z FACTOR METHOD;

EID: 84862222160     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/rna.19759     Document Type: Article

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