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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2011

cSSMD: assessing collective activity for addressing off-target effects in genome-scale RNA interference screens.

Xiaohua Douglas Zhang, Francesca Santini, Raul Lacson, Shane D Marine, Qian Wu, Luca Benetti, Ruojing Yang, Alex McCampbell, Joel P Berger, Dawn M Toolan and 5 more

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiaohua Douglas ZhangBiometrics Research, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 19486, USA. xiaohua_zhang@merck.com
Francesca Santini
Raul Lacson
Shane D Marine
Qian Wu
Luca Benetti
Ruojing Yang
Alex McCampbell
Joel P Berger
Dawn M Toolan
Erica M Stec
Daniel J Holder
Keith A Soper
Joseph F Heyse
Marc Ferrer
United States Military Academy · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationOff-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.

resultsHere, we present an analytic method assessing the collective activity of multiple short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) targeting a gene. Using this method, we can not only reduce the impact of off-target activities, but also evaluate the specific effect of an siRNA, thus providing information about potential off-target effects. Using in-house RNAi screens, we demonstrate that our method obtains more reasonable and sensible results than current methods such as the redundant siRNA activity (RSA) method, the RNAi gene enrichment ranking (RIGER) method, the frequency approach and the t-test. CONTACT: xiaohua_zhang@merck.com SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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High-Throughput Screening AssaysRNA InterferenceAlzheimer DiseaseData Interpretation, StatisticalDiabetes MellitusGene Knockdown TechniquesGenomicsHerpesvirus 3, HumanHumansRNA, Small InterferingRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID21846737
PMCPMC3202303
OpenAlexW2170851096

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