Assessment of network inference methods: How to cope with an underdetermined problem

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Siegenthaler, Caroline ^a   Gunawan, Rudiyanto ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CAUSAL MODELING; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GOLD STANDARD; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE SILENCING; PROCEDURES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84897389995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090481     Document Type: Article

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