Quantitative Assessment and Validation of Network Inference Methods in Bioinformatics

• Main Author: Frank Emmert-Streib (auth)
• Other Authors: Benjamin Haibe-Kains (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Genetics (non-medical); Validation; Gene Expression; Network Inference; bioinformatics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Scientists today have access to an unprecedented arsenal of high-tech tools that can be used to thoroughly characterize biological systems of interest. High-throughput "omics" technologies enable to generate enormous quantities of data at the DNA, RNA, epigenetic and proteomic levels. One...