Finding MicroRNA Targets in Plants: Current Status and Perspectives

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 264-275

  Ding, Jiandong ^a,c   Zhou, Shuigeng ^a   Guan, Jihong ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IBM Research   (China)

Author keywords

Degradome seq; Integration; MicroRNA; Target prediction

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA LIGASE;

BIOGENESIS; DNA METHYLATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE SILENCING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DATABASE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PLANT GENETICS; REVIEW; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STABILITY; RNA STRUCTURE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; RNA TRANSLATION; STRESS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MICRORNAS; PLANTS; RNA, LONG UNTRANSLATED; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT;

EID: 84870337465     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: 22103244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2012.09.003     Document Type: Review

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