BayMiR: Inferring evidence for endogenous miRNA-induced gene repression from mRNA expression profiles

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Radfar, Hossein ^a   Wong, Willy ^a   Morris, Quaid ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTOME; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY;

EID: 84883157920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-592     Document Type: Article

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