Bayesian analysis of gene expression levels: statistical quantification of relative mRNA level across multiple strains or treatments

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Townsend, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Hartl, Daniel L ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science   (United States)

Author keywords

cDNA Microarray; cDNA Microarray Data; Credible Interval; Expression Node; SNF2

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL RNA; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZINC;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS;

BAYES THEOREM; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ETHANOL; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MODELS, GENETIC; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZINC;

EID: 0037975700     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-12-research0071     Document Type: Article

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