Cooperative gene regulation by microRNA pairs and their identification using a computational workflow

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7539-7552

  Schmitz, Ulf ^a   Lai, Xin ^b   Winter, Felix ^a   Wolkenhauer, Olaf ^a,c   Vera, Julio ^b   Gupta, Shailendra K ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d CSIR INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TOXICOLOGY RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, MESSENGER; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84904016399     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku465     Document Type: Article

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