DNA Methylation Patterns Facilitate the Identification of MicroRNA Transcription Start Sites: A Brain-Specific Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Bhadra, Tapas ^a   Bhattacharyya, Malay ^b   Feuerbach, Lars ^c   Lengauer, Thomas ^d   Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KALYANI   (India)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENETICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PREDICTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

DNA METHYLATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84879482340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066722     Document Type: Article

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