cSSMD: assessing collective activity for addressing off-target effects in genome-scale RNA interference screens
Author(s) -
Xiaohua Douglas Zhang,
Francesca Santini,
Raul Lacson,
Shane Marine,
Qian Wu,
Luca Benetti,
Ruojing Yang,
Alex McCampbell,
Joel P. Berger,
Dawn Toolan,
Erica Stec,
Daniel Holder,
Keith A. Soper,
Joseph F. Heyse,
Marc Ferrer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
bioinformatics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.599
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1367-4811
pISSN - 1367-4803
DOI - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr474
Subject(s) - rna interference , computational biology , interference (communication) , computer science , small interfering rna , false positive paradox , gene , rna , biology , genetics , artificial intelligence , computer network , channel (broadcasting)
Off-target activity commonly exists in RNA interference (RNAi) screens and often generates false positives. Existing analytic methods for addressing the off-target effects are demonstrably inadequate in RNAi confirmatory screens.
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