Reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks through genomics data

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 595-617

  Sun, Ning ^a   Zhao, Hongyu ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; CLUSTER BASED ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN GRAPHICAL METHOD; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE NUMBER; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENOMICS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINETIC MODELS FOR MRNA SYNTHESIS; MRNA DECAY DATA; REGULATION MODEL; RELEVANCE NETWORK; REVIEW; STATE-SPACE MODELS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME COURSE MICROARRAY GENE EXPRESSION DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 73449106062     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280209351890     Document Type: Review

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