Gene regulatory networks in plants: Learning causality from time and perturbation

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Krouk, Gabriel ^c   Lingeman, Jesse ^a   Colon, Amy Marshall ^b   Coruzzi, Gloria ^b   Shasha, Dennis ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MONTPELLIER SUPAGRO   (France)

Author keywords

Gene regulatory networks; Network interference; Plant; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; LEARNING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PLANT; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; PROCEDURES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MODELS, GENETIC; PLANTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84883795281     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-6-123     Document Type: Article

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