Prediction of human miRNA target genes using computationally reconstructed ancestral mammalian sequences

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 556-566

  Leclercq, Mickael ^a   Diallo, Abdoulaye Baniré ^b   Blanchette, Mathieu ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; MESSENGER RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE SEQUENCE TARGET SITE PREDICTOR; SMCR8 GENE; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RNA INTERFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MICRORNAS; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 85014036168     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkw1085     Document Type: Article

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