RNAi: Design and Analysis
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- Abstract
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Abstract
RNAi is a novel genetic tool that is poised to revolutionize the study of genetics and gene networks. Use of this tool requires knowledge of the underlying mechanisms and application of this knowledge to the construction of a gene?silencing library. This unit discusses approaches to rational design of this library and its use in experiments. It focuses on the design algorithms developed so far and briefly discuss several issues that could lead to improvements in the current design algorithms.
Keywords: RNAi; Oligo design; siRNA; miRNA; shRNA
Table of Contents
- Basic Protocol 1: Designing siRNAs
- Support Protocol 1: Constructing a Database of Nonredundant mRNA Sequences
- Basic Protocol 2: shRNA Design
- Basic Protocol 3: Prediction of miRNA Genes
- Basic Protocol 4: Identifying Targets of miRNA
- Alternate Protocol 1: Building and Using a Library of shRNAs
- Commentary
- Literature Cited
- Figures
- Tables
Materials
Figures
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Figure 12.3.1 The design of hairpins. View Image -
Figure 12.3.2 Output from mfold for the author's hairpin design. View Image -
Figure 12.3.3 The processes involved in RNAi. Abbreviations: MNT, micrococcal nuclease tudor; FXR, fragile X–related; VIG, vasa intronic gene. View Image
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Internet Resources | |
http://www.ambion.com/catalog/supp/silencer_lib.html | |
Ambion company Web site. | |
http://www.apache.org | |
Apache open source Web server. | |
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw/ | |
ClustalW: Open source multiple alignment program.. | |
http://katahdin.cshl.org:9331/siRNA | |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory siRNA Web site (R. Sachidanandam and J. Lee). | |
http://www.dharmacon.com/ | |
Dharmacon company Web site. | |
http://design.dharmacon.com/rnadesign/default.aspx?sid=731615029 | |
Dharmacon siRNA Design Center. | |
http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/hannon.html | |
Hannon Laboratory Web site at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | |
http://hmmer.wustl.edu/ | |
HMMER Web site (S.R. Eddy). Open source HMM tools. | |
http://www.bioinfo.rpi.edu/applications/mfold/ | |
mfold: Open source RNA folding program (M. Zuker). | |
http://genes.mit.edu/mirscan/ | |
MiRscan Web site (M. Mawson, L.P. Lim, and N. Lau). | |
http://toy.lbl.gov:9050/cgi-bin/miRseeker.pl | |
MiRseeker Web site (P. Tomancak). | |
http://www.mysql.com | |
MySQL: Open source database. | |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ | |
NCBI: A site for genomics data, tools, and analyses. | |
http://igs-server.cnrs-mrs.fr/Tcoffee/ | |
T‐Coffee server. |