Spatial transcriptomics: paving the way for tissue-level systems biology

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 46, Issue , 2017, Pages 126-133

  Moor, Andreas E ^a   Itzkovitz, Shalev ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY;

DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIVISION OF LABOR; MICROENVIRONMENTS; SPATIAL COORDINATES; SPATIAL DIVISION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

TISSUE;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ABSORPTION; BLOOD FLOW; CELL FUNCTION; CELLS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE MAPPING; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA SEQUENCE; SECRETION (PROCESS); SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TISSUES; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 85016080072     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2017.02.004     Document Type: Review

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