From correlation to causation networks: A simple approximate learning algorithm and its application to high-dimensional plant gene expression data

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Opgen Rhein, Rainer ^a   Strimmer, Korbinian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ALGORITHM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INTERNET; PLANT GENE;

ALGORITHMS; ARABIDOPSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 34848903220     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-1-37     Document Type: Article

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