Elucidating the role of microRNAs in cancer through data mining techniques

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 774, Issue , 2013, Pages 291-315

  Cascione, Luciano ^a   Ferro, Alfredo ^a   Giugno, Rosalba ^a   Laganà, Alessandro ^b   Pigola, Giuseppe ^c   Pulvirenti, Alfredo ^a   Veneziano, Dario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Research and Development Department   (Italy)

Author keywords

Database; Expression profiles; Functional analysis; MicroRNA; Network models

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MICRORNA 100; MICRORNA 125B; MICRORNA 141; MICRORNA 143; MICRORNA 15B; MICRORNA 16; MICRORNA 181B; MICRORNA 205; MICRORNA 24; MICRORNA 296; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGGLOMERATIVE HIERARCHICAL METHOD; ALGORITHM; APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDER; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BREAST CANCER; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLIENT SERVER APPLICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA BASE; DATA MINING; EMPIRICAL BAYES METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; LOCAL REGRESSION CURVE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY HYBRIDIZATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PARTITIONING METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANK PRODUCT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA BINDING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT T TEST; VARIANCE STABILIZATION NORMALIZATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

DATA MINING; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; NEOPLASMS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84934437195     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-7-5590-1_15     Document Type: Article

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