Advances in the techniques for the prediction of microRNA targets

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 8179-8187

  Zheng, Hao ^a,b   Fu, Rongguo ^c   Wang, Jin Tao ^d   Liu, Qinyou ^e   Chen, Haibin ^f   Jiang, Shi Wen ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d SHANXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Feature selection; Microrna; Prediction

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MESSENGER RNA;

GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THERMOSTABILITY; ANIMAL; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; METABOLISM; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROCEDURES; TRENDS;

EUKARYOTA;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; EPIGENOMICS; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 84877069189     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms14048179     Document Type: Review

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