Information-based methods for predicting gene function from systematic gene knock-downs

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Weirauch, Matthew T ^a   Wong, Christopher K ^a   Byrne, Alexandra B ^b   Stuart, Joshua M ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; FUNCTIONAL MODULES; FUNCTIONAL NETWORK; FUNCTIONAL SIMILARITY; GENE FUNCTION PREDICTION; GENOMIC FREQUENCY; SIGNALING PATHWAYS;

RNA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA INTERFERENCE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES; GENES, HELMINTH; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; RNA INTERFERENCE;

EID: 57449115862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-9-463     Document Type: Article

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