Geometry of the Gene Expression Space of Individual Cells

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Korem, Yael ^a   Szekely, Pablo ^a   Hart, Yuval ^a   Sheftel, Hila ^a   Hausser, Jean ^a   Mayo, Avi ^a   Rothenberg, Michael E ^b   Kalisky, Tomer ^c   Alon, Uri ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GEOMETRY; TISSUE;

CELL TYPES; CELL-BE; CELL/B.E; CELL/BE; CONTINUUM OF STATE; GENES EXPRESSION; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; INDIVIDUAL CELLS; SINGLE CELLS; TETRAHEDRA;

GENE EXPRESSION;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW CELL; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPT CELL; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITIC CELL; GENE EXPRESSION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINAL STEM CELL; LYMPHOCYTE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROTEINS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84938632823     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004224     Document Type: Article

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