Positional information, in bits

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 41, 2013, Pages 16301-16308

  Dubuis, Julien O ^a,b   Tkacik, Gašper ^a,c   Wieschaus, Eric F ^a,b   Gregor, Thomas ^a,b   Bialek, William ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Lewis Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Embryonic development; Gene regulatory networks; Optimization

Indexed keywords

MORPHOGEN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POSITION; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS;

EID: 84885367219     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1315642110     Document Type: Article

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