In silico approaches to mechanistic and predictive toxicology: An introduction to bioinformatics for toxicologists

Critical Reviews in Toxicology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 67-112

  Fielden, Mark R ^a   Matthews, Jason B ^a   Fertuck, Kirsten C ^a   Halgren, Robert G ^a   Zacharewski, Tim R ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioinformatics; BLAST; Cluster analysis; Expressed sequence tags; In silico; Ligand docking; Microarray; Molecular modeling; Multiple sequence alignment; Position weight matrix; SAGE; Single nucleotide polymorphisms; Toxicogenomics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BIOINFORMATICS; DATA BASE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOXICOLOGY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036204734     PISSN: 10408444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20024091064183     Document Type: Review

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