Charless C Fowlkes1, Cris L Luengo Hendriks, Soile V E Keränen

  • 1Berkeley Drosophila Transcription Network Project, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.

Cell
|April 22, 2008
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,Drosophila胚の遺伝子発現パターンを正確にマッピングする新しいコンピューティングモデル,VirtualEmbryoを紹介しています. このツールは,遺伝子関係を明らかにし,新しい相互作用を予測することによって,動物の転写ネットワークを理解するのに役立ちます.

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