Bioinformatic tools for microRNA dissection

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 24-44

  Akhtar, Most Mauluda ^a   Micolucci, Luigina ^a   Islam, Md Soriful ^a   Olivieri, Fabiola ^a,b   Procopio, Antonio Domenico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^b INRCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; SINGLE STRANDED RNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

BIOINFORMATICS; CARCINOGENESIS; DATA BASE; DEVELOPMENT; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RNA DEGRADATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RESEARCH; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84959432395     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1221     Document Type: Review

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