Accurate measurements of dynamics and reproducibility in small genetic networks

Molecular Systems Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dubuis, Julien O ^a   Samanta, Reba ^a   Gregor, Thomas ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drosophila gap genes; dynamics; error analysis; immunofluorescence; reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GIANT PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; HUNCHBACK PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; KNI PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; KRUPPEL LIKE FACTOR; KRUPPEL PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; DROSOPHILA; DYNAMICS; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOST; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84873861213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17444292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/msb.2012.72     Document Type: Article

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