Building the developmental oculome: Systems biology in vertebrate eye development and disease

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 305-323

  Lachke, Salil A ^a   Maas, Richard L ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VERTEBRATA;

PROTEOME;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE; EYE DISEASE; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE; EYE DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLOME; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEOME; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79952202029     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.59     Document Type: Review

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