Current approaches to gene regulatory network modelling

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2007, Pages

  Schlitt, Thomas ^a   Brazma, Alvis ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS APPROACH; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK MODEL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; NETWORK CONTROL; NETWORK DYNAMICS; NETWORK MODELLING; NETWORK TOPOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR BINDING;

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

CONTROLLED STUDY; FLY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BINDING; REVIEW; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; YEAST;

EID: 45149101194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-8-S6-S9     Document Type: Review

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