RFMirTarget: Predicting Human MicroRNA Target Genes with a Random Forest Classifier

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Mendoza, Mariana R ^a   da Fonseca, Guilherme C ^a   Loss Morais, Guilherme ^a   Alves, Ronnie ^b   Margis, Rogerio ^a   Bazzan, Ana L C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO VALE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFIER; COMPUTER PREDICTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; RANDOM FOREST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84880777833     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070153     Document Type: Article

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