Learning a nonlinear dynamical system model of gene regulation: A perturbed steady-state approach

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1311-1333

  Meister, Arwen ^a   Li, Ye Henry ^a   Choi, Bokyung ^a   Wong, Wing Hung ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained convex optimization; Gene expression regulation; Gene network inference; Genome wide expression measurements; Parameter selection; Perturbed steady state; Synthetic gene network; Thermodynamic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885040776     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOAS645     Document Type: Article

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