A Pipeline Architecture for Inferring and Visualizing Gene Networks from cDNA Microarray Expression Data in Crop Plants

摘要

Background: In many important crops genomic studies are generating large amounts of data from cDNA sequencing and RNA expression experiments. Genomic data is complementing the efforts at improving production of new plant varieties with resistance to major worldwide biotic problems, facing the climate change challenge and pursuing the quest for better quality. After the initial exploratory phase of genome sequencing and functional characterization of genes of interest, a post-genomics phase is pointing towards the understanding of the organism function as a whole, through Systems Biology.