Gaussian process modelling for bicoid mRNA regulation in spatio-temporal Bicoid profile

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 366-372

  Liu, Wei ^a   Niranjan, Mahesan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICOID PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; RNA STABILITY;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MODELS, GENETIC; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 84856560317     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr658     Document Type: Article

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