Optimized models for design of efficient miR30-based shRNAs

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue AUG, 2012, Pages

  Matveeva, Olga V ^a,b   Nazipova, Nafisa N ^c   Ogurtsov, Aleksey Y ^d   Shabalina, Svetlana A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS OF BIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational models; miR30 based shRNA; ShRNA design; Thermodynamic parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876041468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2012.00163     Document Type: Article

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