Systematic exploration of autonomous modules in noisy microRNA-target networks for testing the generality of the ceRNA hypothesis

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yip, Danny Kit Sang ^a   Pang, Iris K ^a   Yip, Kevin Y ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Competing endogeneous RNA; MicroRNA network; MicroRNA target bicluster

Indexed keywords

COMPETING ENDOGENOUS RNA; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICRORNA TARGET BICLUSTER; PREDICTION; RNA BINDING; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84964312596     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-1178     Document Type: Article

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