Predicting effective microRNA target sites in mammalian mRNAs

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue AUGUST2015, 2015, Pages

  Agarwal, Vikram ^a,b   Bell, George W ^c   Nam, Jin Wu ^a,b,d   Bartel, David P ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALS; MICRORNAS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84940502214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.05005     Document Type: Article

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