Hello my fellow researchers,
Once again here I come with basic survey like questions.
Does anyone here works with Gene Networks, more specific in ways to model it, I've heard of S-System, which is a Differential Equation model, but I would like to know which other approaches are commonly used.
As well, does any one has any information of kinda of a seminal paper in this topic that is a "must read, must cite" paper.
I'm deeply interested in trying to model this networks, so I would like to know if anyone has a grasp on which direction is this research going.
Thanks
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I'd suggest you take a look at the people behind the RECOMB satellite meeting on Regulatory Genomics and see what they are doing in their research. I attended that conference in 2009 and 2010. I recall a nice tool presented by Grace Huang from U of Pittsburgh (Panayiotis Benos group). They incorporate evidence from gene expression to build disease-specific modules that also use transcription factors and microRNAs.
Added on 2 June 2011:
Two new papers that might be relevant to this are:
More than half of your DNA is devoted to regulating how genes carry out their tasks. A new paper by Bert O'Malley and Jun Qin appears in the current issue of the journal Cell.
An integrated approach to characterize genetic interaction networks in yeast metabolism, by Balazs Szappanos, Karoly Kovacs, et al. in Nature Genetics.
There is a "seminal" review of Hidde de Jong (where you can find a "seminal" paper for each reviewed method) :
de Jong. Modeling and simulation of genetic regulatory systems: a literature review. J Comput Biol (2002) vol. 9 (1) pp. 67-103
Wikipedia gives a book named "Computational Modeling of Genetic and Biochemical Networks" by James M. Bower and Hamid Bolouri. However, it is 10 years old.
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