MORPHIN: A web tool for human disease research by projecting model organism biology onto a human integrated gene network

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue W1, 2014, Pages

  Hwang, Sohyun ^a,b   Kim, Eiru ^a   Yang, Sunmo ^a   Marcotte, Edward M ^b   Lee, Insuk ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; INTERNET; ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; ORTHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEB BROWSER;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; DISEASE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; INTERNET; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84904823790     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku434     Document Type: Article

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