SMRI: A New Method for SiRNA Design for COVID-19 Therapy

Overview

Journal J Comput Sci Technol

Publisher Science Press

Date 2022 Aug 22

PMID 35992496

Authors

Meng-Xin Chen

Xiao-Dong Zhu

Hao Zhang

Zhen Liu

Yuan-Ning Liu

Affiliations

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Abstract

Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11390-021-0826-x.

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