Computational prediction of microRNA targets

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 887, Issue , 2015, Pages 231-252

  Laganà, Alessandro ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

microRNA; Post transcriptional gene regulation; Target prediction

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; BINDING SITE; CROSS LINKING; GENE CONTROL; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MACHINE LEARNING; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN TARGETING; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA BINDING; RNA STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOMICS; MICRORNAS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84949745048     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-22380-3_12     Document Type: Chapter

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