In-Depth Exploration of miRNA: A New Approach to Study miRNA at the miRNA/isomiR Levels

Current Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 522-530

  Guo, Li ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Zhao, Yang ^a   Yang, Sheng ^a   Chen, Feng ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approach; Expression profile; Isomer; microRNA (miRNA)

Indexed keywords

APPROACH; CLASSIFIEDS; EXPRESSION PROFILE; FUNCTIONAL ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; MICRORNA; NEW APPROACHES; SINGLE SEQUENCES; SMALL RNA;

RNA;

MICRORNA; SMALL UNTRANSLATED RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; RNA SEQUENCE;

EID: 84899952353     PISSN: 15748936     EISSN: 2212392X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1574893608666131120234836     Document Type: Article

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