Gene regulatory networks and their applications: Understanding biological and medical problems in terms of networks

Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Emmert Streib, Frank ^a   Dehmer, Matthias ^b   Haibe Kains, Benjamin ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Computational genomics; Gene regulatory networks; Network analysis; Personalized medicine; Statistical inference; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928888210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2296634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2014.00038     Document Type: Short Survey

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