Using bioconductor package BiGGR for metabolic flux estimation based on gene expression changes in brain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Gavai, Anand K ^a,b   Supandi, Farahaniza ^c,f   Hettling, Hannes ^a   Murrell, Paul ^d   Leunissen, Jack A M ^e   Van Beek, Johannes H G M ^a,b,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology NCSB   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN METABOLISM; CARBON METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; LEAST SQUARES WITH EQUALITY AND INEQUALITY FLUX BALANCE ANALYSIS; METABOLIC FLUX ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84926292452     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119016     Document Type: Article

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