GOAL: A software tool for assessing biological significance of genes groups

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Tchagang, Alain B ^a   Gawronski, Alexander ^a   Bérubé, Hugo ^a   Phan, Sieu ^a   Famili, Fazel ^a   Pan, Youlian ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; FUNCTION INTEGRATION; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION; FUNCTIONAL EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS; FUNCTIONAL RELEVANCE;

BIOASSAY; BIOCHIPS; BIOINFORMATICS; CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; TOOLS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOMICS; METHODOLOGY;

DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES; GENOMICS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 77951870984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-11-229     Document Type: Article

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