An Integrated Approach to Reconstructing Genome-Scale Transcriptional Regulatory Networks

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Imam, Saheed ^a   Noguera, Daniel R ^a,b   Donohue, Timothy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION;

COMPARATIVE GENOMICS; GENE CLUSTERS; GENES EXPRESSION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LARGE-SCALES; NETWORK MODELS; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORKS; WORK-FLOWS;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ARTICLE; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA BINDING MOTIF; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GENOMICS; IRON BALANCE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATORY NETWORK; BACTERIAL GENOME; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES;

EID: 84924390031     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004103     Document Type: Article

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