Exploring complex miRNA-mRNA interactions with Bayesian networks by splitting-averaging strategy

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Liu, Bing ^a   Li, Jiuyong ^a   Tsykin, Anna ^b   Liu, Lin ^a   Gaur, Arti B ^c   Goodall, Gregory J ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b HANSON INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORK STRUCTURE; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; EXPRESSION PROFILE; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TARGET GENE EXPRESSION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGY;

RNA;

MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; EPITHELIAL CELLS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 73249118535     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-408     Document Type: Article

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