Machine learning methods for microRNA gene prediction

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1107, Issue , 2014, Pages 177-187

  Saçar, Müşerref Duygu ^a   Allmer, Jens ^a  

^a IZMIR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Classification; Examples; Machine learning; miRNA gene detection; miRNA gene prediction; Test data

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA GENE; RNA SEQUENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; MICRORNAS;

EID: 84934444923     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-748-8_10     Document Type: Article

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