The statistical geometry of transcriptome divergence in cell-type evolution and cancer

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liang, Cong ^a   Forrest, Alistair R R ^b   Wagner, Günter P ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

CANCER; CELL ORGANELLE; DATA SET; EMERGENCE; GEOMETRY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPECIALIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER CELL LINE; CELL SPECIFICITY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GEOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84923072107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7066     Document Type: Article

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