title: Bacterial molecular networks: bridging the gap between functional genomics and dynamical modelling.
abstract: This introductory review synthesizes the contents of the volume Bacterial Molecular Networks of the series Methods in Molecular Biology. This volume gathers 9 reviews and 16 method chapters describing computational protocols for the analysis of metabolic pathways, protein interaction networks, and regulatory networks. Each protocol is documented by concrete case studies dedicated to model bacteria or interacting populations. Altogether, the chapters provide a representative overview of state-of-the-art methods for data integration and retrieval, network visualization, graph analysis, and dynamical modelling.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Bioinformatique des Génomes et des Réseaux, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium. jvhelden@ulb.ac.be
authors.forename: Jacques
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: van Helden
authors.forename: Ariane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Toussaint
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thieffry
mesh_terms: D018407:Bacterial Physiological Phenomena; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks / Q000502:physiology*; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D056186:Metagenomics / Q000379:methods*; D008954:Models, Biological; D060066:Protein Interaction Maps / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*