Maximizing capture of gene co-expression relationships through pre-clustering of input expression samples: An Arabidopsis case study

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Feltus, F Alex ^a   Ficklin, Stephen P ^a   Gibson, Scott M ^b   Smith, Melissa C ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Clemson University   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; Gene network; Relevance network; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; PLANT GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT;

EID: 84878438199     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-44     Document Type: Article

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