Functional architecture of Escherichia coli: New insights provided by a natural decomposition approach

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2008, Pages

  Freyre González, Julio A ^a   Alonso Pavón, José A ^a   Treviño Quintanilla, Luis G ^a   Collado Vides, Julio ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS FÍSICAS   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CLUSTER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; PROMOTER REGION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL GENE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

EID: 57049166435     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-10-r154     Document Type: Article

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