SimiRa: A tool to identify coregulation between micrornas and rna-binding proteins

RNA Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 998-1009

  Preusse, Martin ^a   Marr, Carsten ^a   Saunders, Sita ^b   Maticzka, Daniel ^b   Lickert, Heiko ^a,c   Backofen, Rolf ^b   Theis, Fabian ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coregulation; Functional similarity; MicroRNAs; RNA binding proteins; Web application

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 221; MICRORNA 222; PROTEIN P27; PUMILIO FAMILY PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION AND SEQUENCING; INTERNET; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA BINDING; RNA PROCESSING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMIRA; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; WEB BROWSER;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SOFTWARE; WEB BROWSER;

EID: 84949813191     PISSN: 15476286     EISSN: 15558584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15476286.2015.1068496     Document Type: Article

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