Positional information, Positional error, and readout precision in morphogenesis: A mathematical framework

Genetics

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 39-59

  Tkačik, Gašper ^a   Dubuis, Julien O ^b   Petkova, Mariela D ^b   Gregor, Thomas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AUSTRIA   (Austria)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENTROPY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; POSITIONAL ERROR; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; READOUT PRECISION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EMBRYOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS;

ANIMALS; DROSOPHILA; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MORPHOGENESIS;

EID: 84920879956     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.114.171850     Document Type: Article

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