Integrated analysis and reconstruction of microbial transcriptional gene regulatory networks using coryneregnet

Nature Protocols

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 992-1005

  Baumbach, Jan ^a   Wittkop, Tobias ^a,b   Kleindt, Christiane Katja ^b,c   Tauch, Andreas ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; INTERNET; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 68149161129     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2009.81     Document Type: Article

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