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siDRM: an effective and generally applicable online siRNA design tool
Wuming Gong1, Yongliang Ren, Haiyan Zhou
1Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|August 23, 2008
Summary
siRNA design tools are crucial for gene function studies. A new tool, siDRM, uses a diverse dataset and advanced filters to identify effective small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) more accurately than existing methods.
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