Improved nucleic acid descriptors for siRNA efficacy prediction

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1383-1394

  Sciabola, Simone ^a   Cao, Qing ^a   Orozco, Modesto ^b,c   Faustino, Ignacio ^b,c   Stanton, Robert V ^a  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOM FOREST; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOFTWARE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84873667029     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1191     Document Type: Article

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