How little do we actually know? on the size of gene regulatory networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1293-1300

  Röttger, Richard ^a   Rückert, Ulrich ^b   Taubert, Jan ^c   Baumbach, Jan ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b University at California Berkeley   (United States)

^c ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational biology; network statistics; transcriptional gene regulatory networks

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENETIC CONTROL; LARGE-SCALE EVOLUTION; LOWER BOUNDS; MODEL ORGANISMS; MOLECULAR CONTROL MECHANISM; NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATIONS; NETWORK STATISTICS; ON-GOING IMPROVEMENT; POPULATION GENETICS; REGULATORY INTERACTIONS; REGULATORY NETWORK; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCES;

BIOINFORMATICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS;

EID: 84864925344     PISSN: 15455963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2012.71     Document Type: Article

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