Reconstructing biological gene regulatory networks: Where optimization meets big data

Evolutionary Intelligence

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 29-47

  Thomas, Spencer Angus ^a   Jin, Yaochu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Big data; Data science; Data driven optimization; Evolutionary algorithms; Gene regulatory network reconstruction; Metaheuristics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; BIG DATA; BIOCHIPS; DATA SCIENCE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INFERENCE ENGINES; OPTIMIZATION; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

DATA-DRIVEN OPTIMIZATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HIGH THROUGHPUT EXPERIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE OPTIMIZATION; MANY-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATIONS; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; META HEURISTICS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 84894345697     PISSN: 18645909     EISSN: 18645917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12065-013-0098-7     Document Type: Review

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