Plant systems biology / edited by Dmitry A. Belostotsky. — New York ; London : Humana, c2009. – (58.17/M592/v.553)

Contents

    CONTENTS
    
    Foreword
    Preface
    Contributors
    SECTION I SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF PLANT GENE EXPRESSION
    1. Gene-Specific and Genome-Wide ChIP Approaches to Study Plant Transcriptional Networks
    2. Genome-Wide Analysis of RNA-Protein Interactions in Plants
    3. Whole-Genome Microarrays: Applications and Technical Issues
    4. Manipulating Large-Scale Arabidopsis Microarray Expression Data: Identifying Dominant Expression Patterns and Biological Process Enrichment 57
    5. Applications of Ultra-high-Throughput Sequencing
    6. Isolation of Plant Polysomal mRNA by Differential Centrifugation and Ribosome Immunopurification Methods 109
    7. Chromatin Charting: Global Mapping of Epigenetic Effects 127
    8. Clone-Based Functional Genomics
    SECTION II: NETWORKS， PATHWAYS， STATISTICAL ISSUES， AND NOVEL COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS
    9. Challenges and Approaches to Statistical Design and Inference in High-Dimensional Investigations
    10. Discrete Dynamic Modeling with Asynchronous Update， or How to Model Complex Systems in the Absence of Quantitative Information 207
    11. Quantification of Variation in Expression Networks
    12. Co-expression Analysis of Metabolic Pathways in Plants
    13. Integration of Metabolic Reactions and Gene Regulation
    14. Applying Word-Based Algorithms: The IMEter
    SECTION III: IMAGING
    15. Live-Imaging and Image Processing of Shoot Apical Meristems of Arabidopsis thaliana
    16. Computer Vision as a Tool to Study Plant Development
    SECTION IV: CHEMICAL GENETIC， METABOLOMIC， AND INTEGRATIVE METHODS FOR PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
    17. Metabolomics of Plant Volatiles 329
    18. Chemical Genomics Approaches in Plant Biology 345
    19. Comparison of Quantitative Metabolite Imaging Tools and Carbon-13 Techniques for Fluxomics 355
    20. Democratization and Integration of Genomic Profiling Tools 373
    Index