The elucidation of the transcriptional regulatory networks that orchestrate brain development is an important problem in systems biology. Biologists have performed reliable low-throughput investigations of regulatory interactions between transcription factors and target genes for decades, providing a deep source of information that is not fully exploited. Chu et al. reviewed over 3,000 research publications to document low-throughput experimental evidence for 1,499 unique regulatory interactions shown in the figure, involving 251 transcription factors (blue) and 825 targets (orange). Article
Image Credit: The network graphic was created by Eric Ching-Pan Chu (first author) using Cytoscape (Shannon et al., Genome Res 2003).
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