Prosecutor: Parameter-free inference of gene function for prokaryotes using DNA microarray data, genomic context and multiple gene annotation sources

BMC Genomics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Blom, Evert Jan ^a   Breitling, Rainer ^b   Hofstede, Klaas Jan ^a   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^b   van Hijum, Sacha A F T ^a,c   Kuipers, Oscar P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c NIZO FOOD RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PROKARYOTE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

PROKARYOTA;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 56649105354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-9-495     Document Type: Article

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