Reverse engineering biomolecular systems using -omic data: Challenges, progress and opportunities

Briefings in Bioinformatics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 430-445

  Quo, Chang F ^a   Kaddi, Chanchala ^a   Phan, John H ^b   Zollanvari, Amin ^c   Xu, Mingqing ^d   Wang, May D ^a   Alterovitz, Gil ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

omic data; Analysis by synthesis; High throughput technology; Reverse engineering biological systems; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA MINING; METHODOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOENGINEERING; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA MINING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84865091206     PISSN: 14675463     EISSN: 14774054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbs026     Document Type: Article

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