Robust rank aggregation for gene list integration and meta-analysis

Bioinformatics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 573-580

  Kolde, Raivo ^a,b   Laur, Sven ^a   Adler, Priit ^a   Vilo, Jaak ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b Quretec ^*  (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; STEM CELL; YEAST;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MICE; STEM CELLS; YEASTS;

EID: 84857156980     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr709     Document Type: Article

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