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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2018

Gene Expression Is Not Random: Scaling, Long-Range Cross-Dependence, and Fractal Characteristics of Gene Regulatory Networks.

Mahboobeh Ghorbani, Edmond A Jonckheere, Paul Bogdan

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Mahboobeh GhorbaniElectrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Edmond A JonckheereElectrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
Paul BogdanElectrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gene expression is a vital process through which cells react to the environment and express functional behavior. Understanding the dynamics of gene expression could prove crucial in unraveling the physical complexities involved in this process. Specifically, understanding the coherent complex structure of transcriptional dynamics is the goal of numerous computational studies aiming to study and finally control cellular processes. Here, we report the scaling properties of gene expression time series in

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dynamicsentropyfractalsgene expressiongene regulatory network

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PMID30459629
PMCPMC6232942

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