Inferring condition-specific miRNA activity from matched miRNA and mRNA expression data

Bioinformatics

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2014, Pages 3070-3077

  Zhang, Junpeng ^a   Le, Thuc Duy ^b   Liu, Lin ^b   Liu, Bing ^c   He, Jianfeng ^d   Goodall, Gregory J ^e   Li, Jiuyong ^b  

^a DALI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S CANCER INSTITUTE AUSTRALIA FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e An alliance between SA Pathology and the University of South Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; PROCEDURES;

EPITHELIAL-MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84911422756     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu489     Document Type: Article

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