TRaCE+: Ensemble inference of gene regulatory networks from transcriptional expression profiles of gene knock-out experiments

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ud Dean, S M Minhaz ^a,b   Heise, Sandra ^c   Klamt, Steffen ^c   Gunawan, Rudiyanto ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Gene regulatory network; Network inference; Signed directed graph; Transitive reduction

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ACTIVATION; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; DIRECTED GRAPHS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; GRAPH THEORY; INFERENCE ENGINES;

DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSIONS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; NETWORK INFERENCE; REGULATORY INTERACTIONS; SIGNED DIRECTED GRAPH; TRANSCRIPTIONAL REGULATION; TRANSITIVE REDUCTIONS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

GENE EXPRESSION;

CHEMICAL BINDING; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; DREAM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXTRACT; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GOLD STANDARD; KNOCKOUT GENE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ALGORITHM; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALGORITHMS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84975744575     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-016-1137-z     Document Type: Article

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