Computational Challenges and -omics Approaches for the Identification of microRNAs and Targets

Essentials of Noncoding RNA in Neuroscience: Ontogenetics, Plasticity of the Vertebrate Brain

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 39-59

  Vlachos, Ioannis S ^a,b   Georgakilas, Georgios ^a,b   Tastsoglou, Spyros ^a,b   Paraskevopoulou, Maria D ^a,b   Karagkouni, Dimitra ^a,b   Hatzigeorgiou, Artemis G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b HELLENIC PASTEUR INSTITUTE   (Greece)

Author keywords

MiRNA databases; MiRNA expression; MiRNA pathways; MiRNA regulation; MiRNA targets

Indexed keywords

EID: 85032151882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-804402-5.00003-0     Document Type: Chapter

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