by Douglas Steinberg
RESEARCH	MicroRNA Target Practice Computers suggest thousands of binding sites, but experimental support is missing Email: Douglas Steinberg - dsteinberg@the-scientist.com The Scientist 2005, 19(12):14 Published   20 June 2005

About a month before a New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) meeting last February, six of the scheduled speakers received an unusual homework assignment. Each was asked to apply the sequences of two animal microRNAs to an algorithm that his team had developed for predicting messenger RNA binding targets.

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