Computer-based three-dimensional visualization of developmental gene expression

Nature Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 147-152

  Streicher, Johannes ^a   Donat, Markus A ^a   Strauss, Bernhard ^a   Spörle, Ralf ^b   Schughart, Klaus ^c   Müller, Gerd B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Department of Molecular Biology   (France)

^c TRANSGENE S A   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC MARKERS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERNET; MICE; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFTWARE; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0034048134     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/75989     Document Type: Article

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