The organisational structure of protein networks: Revisiting the centrality-lethality hypothesis

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-81

  Raman, Karthik ^a   Damaraju, Nandita ^a   Joshi, Govind Krishna ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Centrality; Lethality; Network biology; Protein protein interactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894462144     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-013-9123-5     Document Type: Article

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