Aggregation of topological motifs in the Escherichia coli transcriptional regulatory network

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Dobrin, Radu ^a   Beg, Qasim K ^a   Barabási, Albert László ^b   Oltvai, Zoltán N ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CELLULAR FUNCTION; FEEDFORWARD LOOPS; ISOLATED CLUSTER; REGULATORY INTERACTIONS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORKS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; TOPOLOGY;

AGGREGATES;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOLOGY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; REGULATOR GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BASE COMPOSITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENES, REGULATOR; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 2942552376     PISSN: 14712105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-5-10     Document Type: Article

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