Bioinformatics of sirna design

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1097, Issue , 2014, Pages 477-490

  Tafer, Hakim ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Accessibility; Binding sites; Computer simulation; Drug design; Gene targeting; RNA; RNA interference; RNA structure; Sequence analysis; Small interfering genetics

Indexed keywords

SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; MACHINE LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; GENETIC DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING;

EID: 84908520977     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-709-9__22     Document Type: Article

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