Opinion
Predicting and validating microRNA targets
545 Life Sciences Addition, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, USA
Genome Biology 2004, 5:115 doi:10.1186/gb-2004-5-9-115
Published: 31 August 2004Abstract
Given that microRNAs select their targets by nucleotide base-pairing, it follows that it should be possible to find microRNA targets computationally. There has been considerable progress, but assessing success and biological significance requires a move into the 'wet' lab.
