Common features of microRNA target prediction tools

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Peterson, Sarah M ^a,b   Thompson, Jeffrey A ^c   Ufkin, Melanie L ^a,b   Sathyanarayana, Pradeep ^a,b   Liaw, Lucy ^a,b   Congdon, Clare Bates ^b,c  

^a Maine Medical Center Research Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational approaches; Conservation; Free energy; Machine learning; microRNA; Seed match; Site accessibility; Target prediction

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA INDUCED SILENCING COMPLEX;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; COMPUTER PREDICTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MACHINE LEARNING; MIRANDA; MIRTARGET2; NONHUMAN; PITA; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA HYBRIDIZATION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSLATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; SVMICRO; TARGETMINER; TARGETSCAN;

EID: 84897742116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00023     Document Type: Review

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