Generating realistic in silico gene networks for performance assessment of reverse engineering methods

Journal of Computational Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 229-239

  Marbach, Daniel ^a   Schaffter, Thomas ^a   Mattiussi, Claudio ^a   Floreano, Dario ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

DREAM challenge; Gene regulatory networks; Modularity; Network motifs; Reverse engineering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 59649110273     PISSN: 10665277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.09TT     Document Type: Article

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