Reverse engeneering of regulatory networks from big data: A roadmap for biologists

Bioinformatics and Biology Insights

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 61-74

  Dong, Xiaoxi ^a   Yambartsev, Anatoly ^b   Ramsey, Stephen A ^a   Thomas, Lina D ^b   Shulzhenko, Natalia ^a   Morgun, Andrey ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Big data; Data integration; Inter omics network; Network interrogation; Network reconstruction; Systems biology; Transkingdom network

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; DOWN REGULATION; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE ONTOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROTEOMICS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; RNA SEQUENCE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; UPREGULATION;

EID: 84930669129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11779322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/BBIi.Ss12467.     Document Type: Article

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