Computational methods for microRNA target prediction

Genes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 671-683

  Ekimler, Semih ^a   Sahin, Kaniye ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; Computational methods; Gene expression regulation; MiRNA; Target prediction

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; BASE PAIRING; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; DIANA MICROT ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MIRANDA ALGORITHM; NONHUMAN; PICTAR ALGORITHM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TARGET PREDICTION; TARGETSCAN ALGORITHM;

EID: 84920067895     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes5030671     Document Type: Review

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