Information flow and optimization in transcriptional regulation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 12265-12270

  Tkačik, Gašper ^a   Callan Jr , Curtis G ^a   Bialek, William ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory networks; Information theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; INFORMATION THEORY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 50449096238     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0806077105     Document Type: Article

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