Essential genes on metabolic maps

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 448-456

  Gerdes, Svetlana ^a   Edwards, Robert ^a,b,c   Kubal, Michael ^d,e   Fonstein, Michael ^a,f   Stevens, Rick ^d,e   Osterman, Andrei ^a,b  

^a Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes   (United States)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f CLEVELAND BIOLABS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL GROWTH; FUNCTIONAL ROLES; GENE SURVIVAL; METABOLIC PATHWAYS;

BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; MAPS; METABOLISM; NEURAL NETWORKS;

GENES;

LYSINE;

BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; BIOSYNTHESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MAPPING; GENOMICS; METABOLISM; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENES, ESSENTIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33748959163     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2006.08.006     Document Type: Review

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