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Genome Systems Biology

Erik van Nimwegen
University of Basel
Basel

The main research interest of the Genome Systems Biology (GSB) Group is the structure, function, and evolution of the genome-wide regulatory networks that cells use to control their gene expression state. Typical questions that we are trying to address include: How are the regulatory networks encoded into the genome sequence? How is this regulatory code read out by the cell? How have these regulatory networks evolved? And, are there general `design principles' to these regulatory networks? Another key interest of our group is the identification of general quantitative laws in genome evolution.

We have developed a number of computational tools for automatically reconstructing gene regulatory networks from high-throughput data, which are made available through the SIB.

The group develops the SIB Resource Swiss Regulon, a regulatory genomics portal

Domain(s) of application
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Basic research
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Medicine and health
Domain of activity
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Genes and genomes