Global prediction of tissue-specific gene expression and context-dependent gene networks in Caenorhabditis elegans

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Chikina, Maria D ^a   Huttenhower, Curtis ^a,b   Murphy, Coleen T ^a   Troyanskaya, Olga G ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; RNA;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX DISEASE; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; GENE NETWORKS; GLOBAL PREDICTIONS; TISSUE SPECIFICS; TISSUE-SPECIFIC EXPRESSION; TISSUE-SPECIFIC GENE EXPRESSION; WHOLE ANIMALS;

TISSUE;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY; ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROMOTER REGION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; METAZOA;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GATA TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MICRORNAS; MODELS, GENETIC; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 67650895858     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000417     Document Type: Article

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