Modeling regulatory cascades using artificial neural networks: The case of transcriptional regulatory networks shaped during the yeast stress response

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue JUN, 2013, Pages

  Manioudaki, Maria E ^a,b   Poirazi, Panayiota ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial Neural Networks; Asynchronous regulation; Heterodimers; Three layers regulatory cascades; Transcriptional regulatory networks; Yeast stress response

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883547999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2013.00110     Document Type: Article

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