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Life Sciences
Researchers from Indian Statistical Institute publish new studies and findings in the area of life sciences
November 6th, 2009
Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'TargetMiner: microRNA target prediction with systematic identification of tissue-specific negative examples.' According to a study from Kolkata, India, "Prediction of microRNA (miRNA) target mRNAs using machine learning approaches is an important area of research. However, most of the methods suffer from either high false positive or false negative rates." "One reason for this is the marked deficiency of negative examples or miRNA non-target pairs. Systematic identification of non-target mRNAs is still not addressed properly, and therefore, current machine learning approaches are compelled to rely on artificially...
Source: Biotech Law Weekly (2009-11-06)
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