Inferring gene networks: Dream or nightmare?: Part 1: Challenges 1 and 3

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1158, Issue , 2009, Pages 246-256

  Baralla, Angela ^a   Mentzen, Wieslawa I ^b   De La Fuente, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b CRS4 Bioinformatica ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Gene networks; Network inference; System identification

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 6;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DREAM; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION SYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; NIGHTMARE; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROVOCATION TEST; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 63849083754     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.04099.x     Document Type: Article

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