Advances in Bioinformatics
Volume 2010 (2010), Article ID 749848, 17 pages
doi:10.1155/2010/749848
Research Article

Modelling Nonstationary Gene Regulatory Processes

Marco Grzegorcyzk,1 Dirk Husmeier,2 and Jörg Rahnenführer1

1Department of Statistics, TU Dortmund University, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
2Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland, JCMB, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh EH93JZ, UK

Received 18 December 2009; Accepted 29 April 2010

Academic Editor: Yves Van de Peer

Copyright © 2010 Marco Grzegorcyzk et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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