Exploring genetic regulatory networks in metazoan development: Methods and models

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 2002, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 131-143

  Halfon, Marc S ^a   Michelson, Alan M ^a,b  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cis regulation; Computational biology; Genomics; Microarrays

Indexed keywords

METAZOA;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; GENOME; METHODOLOGY; MORPHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BODY PATTERNING; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0037015176     PISSN: 15312267     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00072.2002     Document Type: Review

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