Research Letters in Signal Processing
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 825758, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/825758
Research Letter

Singular Spectrum Analysis of Gene Expression Profiles of Early Drosophila embryo: Exponential-in-Distance Patterns

T. Alexandrov,1 N. Golyandina,2 and A. Spirov3

1Center for Industrial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University of Bremen, 28334 Bremen, Germany
2Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, St. Petersburg State University, 198504 St. Petersburg, Russia
3Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Center for Developmental Genetics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

Received 19 May 2008; Accepted 26 June 2008

Academic Editor: Andreas Jakobsson

Copyright © 2008 T. Alexandrov 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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