Time's up: bursting out of transcription.
Many inducible genes are transcribed in bursts. In this issue, Degenhardt et al. (2009) report computational models that predict and validate patterns of stochastic gene expression.
Ford
Ethan
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Institute of Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biotechnology, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, 4 Soranou Efesiou Street, Athens 11527, Greece.
Thanos
Dimitris
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D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008957:Models, Genetic; D014158:Transcription, Genetic