Inferring dynamic gene regulatory networks in cardiac differentiation through the integration of multi-dimensional data

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gong, Wuming ^a   Koyano Nakagawa, Naoko ^a   Li, Tongbin ^b   Garry, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b AccuraScience LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac differentiation; Data integration; Gene regulatory network; Logistic regression; Network inference; Time varying dynamic Bayesian model

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; BINDING SITES; CELL GROWTH; COMPLEX NETWORKS; DATA INTEGRATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES; HEART; MAMMALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STEM CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION;

BAYESIAN MODEL; CARDIAC DIFFERENTIATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NETWORK INFERENCE;

TIME VARYING NETWORKS;

HISTONE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BINDING SITE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYOLOGY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; HEART; HEART MUSCLE CELL; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLAST; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BINDING SITES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; ENHANCER ELEMENTS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HEART; HISTONES; MICE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MYOBLASTS, CARDIAC; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84925221095     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-015-0460-0     Document Type: Article

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