Epistemological issues in omics and high-dimensional biology: Give the people what they want

Physiological Genomics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-32

  Mehta, Tapan S ^a   Zakharkin, Stanislav O ^a,d   Gadbury, Gary L ^b   Allison, David B ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^d Solae LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Microarray experiments; Proteomics; Statistical genonics

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; EPISTEMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; DNA MICROARRAY; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS;

EID: 34247884263     PISSN: 10948341     EISSN: 15312267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00095.2006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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