Influence of the experimental design of gene expression studies on the inference of gene regulatory networks: Environmental factors

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Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Emmert Streib, Frank ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimental design; Gene expression data; Gene regulatory networks; Interventional data; Statistical network inference

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FUZZY SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 84877135982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.10     Document Type: Article

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