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            <title>Knock-down of endogenous proteins by RNA interference in HeLa cells</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-387.html</link>
            <description>This doc file is from Anne-Claude Gingras, Sonenberg lab at McGill University. 

It used synthesized RNAi duplexes to transfect HeLa cells. ...</description>
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            <title>How to make dsRNA</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-388.html</link>
            <description>This protocol illustrated double sandwiched T7 promoter sequence method (from Kitagawa Group).

It is referred to the method described by Kennerdell JR and Carthew RW (1998) with minor modification. 
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            <title>Controls for RNAi experiments</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-710.html</link>
            <description>Controls for RNAi experiments powerpoint file (ppt file downloadable). 

Reference:

“Whither RNAi”  Nature Cell Biology (2003) vol 5(6): 489-490 ...</description>
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            <title>A PCR-based strategy for cloning short hairpin sequences: PCR shagging</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-750.html</link>
            <description>The overall approach is to use an RNA polymerase III promoter to drive
expression of encoded short hairpin RNA (shRNA). For this purpose we use the U6 snRNA promoter and maintain the transcript initiating G nucleotide of the U6snRNA transcript. There by, hair ...</description>
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            <title>PCR template method for dsRNA Synthesis (RNAi)</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-751.html</link>
            <description>A method for synthesis of iRNA which allows both RNA strands to be generated simultaneously from a PCR fragment which contains a T7 promoter on each end. (from Carthew/Clemens/Tuschl, MIT) ...</description>
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            <title>Protocol for siRNA annealing and storage</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-887.html</link>
            <description>This protocol describes how to anneal sense and antisense complementary RNA oligonucleotides to form siRNA and the appropriate storage condition. (Eurogentic)

It is crucial to handle RNA oligo under sterile and RNase free conditions. ...</description>
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            <title>Cloning siRNA duplexes into pSUPER or pSUPERretro vectors</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-933.html</link>
            <description>Strategy and protocol on cloning siRNA duplexes into pSUPER or pSUPERretro vectors for RNAi gene silencing. (Flemington lab at Tulane University). ...</description>
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            <title>A rapid and sensitive assay for quantification of siRNA efficiency and specificity</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1031.html</link>
            <description>Biol. Proced. Online 2005;7:1-7. doi:10.1251/bpo99

Nicola Smart, Peter James Scambler and Paul Richard Riley

Molecular Medicine Unit, Institute of Child Health. 

RNA Interference has rapidly emerged as an efficient procedure for knocking down gene exp ...</description>
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            <title>RNA Interference of Gene Expression (RNAi) in Cultured Drosophila Cells</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1066.html</link>
            <description>A pdf protocol by Carolyn A.Worby, Nancy Simonson-Leff, and Jack E. Dixon (Science's STKE).

ABSTRACT

RNA interference (RNAi) can be used to silence genes in a number of taxa, including plants, nematodes, protozoans,
flies, and mammals represented ...</description>
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            <title>shRNA annealing protocol</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1174.html</link>
            <description>shRNA annealing protocol from Tronolab. ...</description>
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            <title>Method for PCR-based generation of shRNA libraries from cDNAs</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1374.html</link>
            <description>The use of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to silence target gene expression has greatly facilitated mammalian genetic analysis by generating loss-of-function mutants. In recent years, high-throughput, genome-wide screening of siRNA libraries has emerged as a  ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA experiments</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1417.html</link>
            <description>siRNA experiment guide:

1. Always design 2-4 siRNA sequences for your experiment. An useful online siRNA design tool can be found at Ambion siRNA design tool

2. Chose siRNA with GC content aro ...</description>
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            <title>Rnai: A Guide to Gene Silencing</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-287.html</link>
            <description>

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Free sample chaptor supported by biosupplynet.com: 
Transgene Cosuppression in Animals ...</description>
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            <title>Oncogene Reviews on RNAi (free access until Dec.24,2004)</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-289.html</link>
            <description>RNAi Issue of Oncogene Reviews - November 1, 2004
(This issue is freely available online until Dec 24, 2004 through the support of Ambion.) 

Download reviews before the deadline. ...</description>
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            <title>The siRNA user guide</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-536.html</link>
            <description>Review on siRNA application written by Tom Tuschl, Sayda Elbashir, Jens Harborth, and Klaus Weber at Tuschl's Lab, Rockefeller University  (revised May 6, 2004). ...</description>
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            <title>RNA Silencing Methods and Protocols</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-285.html</link>
            <description>RNA Silencing Methods and Protocols  - by Carmichael, Gordon (University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT)
 
Human press publication. Link to Amazon.com.  ...</description>
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            <title>Create siRNA Expression Cassettes by PCR</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1065.html</link>
            <description>Introduction of SECs from Ambion. SECs are PCR products that consist of promoter and terminator sequences flanking a hairpin siRNA template. Upon transfection into cells, the hairpin siRNA is expressed from the PCR product and induces gene specific silencing.  ...</description>
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            <title>RNAi background mini-review by Mary K. Montgomery</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-288.html</link>
            <description>Background
RNAi in other systems
Mechanism of RNAi
Current RNAi studies 
RNAi protocols from the FireLab at the Carnegie Institution of Washington ...</description>
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            <title>Optimizing chemical transfection of chemically synthesized siRNA</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1234.html</link>
            <description>One of the biggest hurdles to obtain reproducible gene silencing results using chemically synthesized siRNAs or DNA constructs that express siRNAs is developing an optimized transfection protocol. The condition for achieving the highest transfection efficiency ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA Transfection into Primary Neuronal Cells
Introduction</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-484.html</link>
            <description>A hot topic article from GTS inc. Transfection of primary neuronal cells is notoriously difficult. Some advances are given in this short article. ...</description>
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            <title>A brief introduction of RNA interference</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-533.html</link>
            <description>An introduction of RNA interference and how it was found. (Charles Mallery, Department of Biology, University of Miami) ...</description>
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            <title>RNAi Protocol Optimization Guide</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1205.html</link>
            <description>A guidline for RNAi experiments design and protocol optimization. It is brought to you by BD bioscience with RNAi related products.

Content:

Getting Started	
*	I don’t know where to start
*	I know which gene I’d like to “knockdown”. Now what?
 ...</description>
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            <title>Vector-based siRNA delivery strategies for high-throughput screening of novel target genes</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1288.html</link>
            <description>An open access review article downloadable in pdf format on vector based siRNA delivery strategies published on Journal of RNAi and Gene Silencing. 

Journal of RNAi and Gene Silencing (2005), 1(1), 5-11

Meihong Chen, Quan Du, Hong-Yan Zhang, Claes Wahles ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA transfection</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1394.html</link>
            <description>Some protocols and overviews on siRNA transfection:

Stable Transfection of Mammalian Cells with siRNA expression vectors (Ambion)

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            <title>SiRNA and RNAi resources from Ambion</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-319.html</link>
            <description>Ambion's SiRNA and RNAi site hosts many valuable resources and articles including siRNA Database, siRNA Design Tools, RNAi Reference List, siRNA Delivery Resource, miRNA Resource and few reviews. ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA resources and design tools at CGB</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-572.html</link>
            <description>The CGB database at Karolinska Institute has a number of computational and wet-lab projects utilising siRNA technology. 

   siRNA resources at CGB, Karolinska Institute
Introduction
Welcome to the unified resource page for siRNA related topics at cgb. The ...</description>
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            <title>Targeting genes expressed in mammalian cells using siRNAs</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-784.html</link>
            <description>A nature pdf protocol and troubleshooting guide on siRNA. (Thomas Tuschl,Laboratory for RNA Molecular Biology, The Rockefeller University)

This is a detailed protocol with troubleshooting solutions in each critical steps. ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA validated and predicted sequence database</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1086.html</link>
            <description>Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 January 1; 33(Database Issue): D131–D134.

siRNAdb: a database of siRNA sequences
Alistair M. Chalk,* Richard E. Warfinge, Patrick Georgii-Hemming, and Erik L. L. Sonnhammer

Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Karolinska Insti ...</description>
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            <title>RNA interference - Guid to computational resources</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1340.html</link>
            <description>A comprehensive resource of RNAi analysis computational tools provided
by NCBI. It contains RNAi probe database, terms glossary, high impact
review articles, online tools and algorithms for designing RNAi, RNAi
project and a list of RNAi technology vendors. ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA sequence database</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1082.html</link>
            <description>A siRNA sequence database for published siRNA. This database is NOT complete and is compiled ONLY from published siRNAs--it should only be considered a 'draft' of what such a database could be. (Michael McManus, MIT) ...</description>
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            <title>Human siRNA Database</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1083.html</link>
            <description>HuSiDa is a public database that serves as a depository for both, sequences of published functional siRNA molecules targeting human genes and important technical details of the corresponding gene silencing experiments. It aims at supporting the setup and actua ...</description>
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            <title>Downloadable siRNA DataBase with Thermodynamic &amp; Composition Information</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1084.html</link>
            <description>The database includes siRNA screening experiments reported in the literature. Activity values is expressed as the ratio of the level of a particular mRNA or protein measured in cells after treatment with the experimental siRNA oligonucleotide duplex versus the ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA sequence list (human, rat, mouse)</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1085.html</link>
            <description>Collections of siRNA sequences from human rat and mouse. (RNA interference) ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA design tools from Whitehead Institute</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1070.html</link>
            <description>This site helps you select siRNAs to knock down your gene of interest. After entering your sequence or accession/gi number, choosing pattern for your oligo nucleotides and various filter methods, you will be presented with a list of oligos matching your criter ...</description>
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            <title>SiRNA design tools from Ambion</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-320.html</link>
            <description>siRNA Target Finder
Find siRNA target sites in your mRNA of interest using the published recommendations of Tuschl and colleagues for siRNA design. Once identified, siRNA targets can be sent directly to one of the kit-specific design tools described be ...</description>
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            <title>siRNA Design Software Using Combination of Online Tools</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1296.html</link>
            <description>SDS (siRNA Design Software, by TW Lam, Prudence WH Wong, SM Yiu, YC Mui, Vivien Kwan, Department of Computer Science, The University of Hong Kong) is a software tool that helps to design siRNAs for silencing gene expression. The tool takes an mRNA sequence and ...</description>
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            <title>RNAi technique animation tutorial from Nature</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-378.html</link>
            <description>This excellent 3D animation is presented by Nature Review Genetics. ...</description>
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            <title>Gene Silencing and siRNA Technologies (bio.com InFocus series)</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-322.html</link>
            <description>From bio.com InFocus series online broadcasting (mp3 and pdf transcript available).

Gene silencing involves cellular processes and mechanisms that result in blockade or inhibition of protein expression at either the transcriptional or translation level. Sma ...</description>
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            <title>RNAi tutorial: Technologies for RNAi Analysis</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-573.html</link>
            <description>Technologies for RNAi Analysis: Tools for Researchers from Novice to Advanced (from Biocompare.com). This is a flash animation tutorial also comes with many illustrations. ...</description>
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            <title>RNAi Analysis: Tools for Researchers from Novice to Advanced</title>
            <link>http://biowww.net/detail-1169.html</link>
            <description>The goal of this tutorial is to provide you with a general background and understanding of RNAi technology, introduce you to 3 different RNAi technologies broadly used today, and lead you to vendors and products that can get you started in RNAi research based  ...</description>
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