Defining genes: A computational framework

Theory in Biosciences

Volumn 128, Issue 3 SPECIAL ISSUE, 2009, Pages 165-170

  Stadler, Peter F ^a,b,c,d,e   Prohaska, Sonja J ^a   Forst, Christian V ^f   Krakauer, David C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CELL THERAPY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^e SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Computation; Gene concept; Homology; I O relations

Indexed keywords

DNA; PROTEOME;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; GENOME; GENOMICS; HEREDITY; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTERS; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES; GENOME; GENOMICS; HEREDITY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 73949153320     PISSN: 14317613     EISSN: 16117530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12064-009-0067-y     Document Type: Article

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