Computational and bioinformatics methods for microRNA gene prediction

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1107, Issue , 2014, Pages 157-175

  Allmer, Jens ^a  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Ab initio prediction; Homology based prediction; miRNA; miRNA prediction accuracy; Multiple sequence alignment based prediction; Secondary structure prediction

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC ALGORITHM; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84934436006     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-748-8_9     Document Type: Article

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