Computational analysis of miRNA target identification

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 512-525

  Wei, Leyi ^a   Huang, Yong ^b   Qu, Yanyun ^a   Jiang, Yi ^a   Zou, Quan ^a  

^a XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Computational miRNA target prediction methods; Machine learning based method; Micrornas; MiRNA target; Rule based methods

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RNA;

COMPUTATIONAL MIRNA TARGET PREDICTION METHOD; LEARNING-BASED METHODS; MACHINE LEARNING BASED METHOD; MACHINE-LEARNING; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MIRNA TARGET; PREDICTION METHODS; RULE-BASED METHOD; TARGET PREDICTION;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

MICRORNA;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HYBRID; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84874899251     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157489312803900974     Document Type: Article

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