Network dynamics and cell physiology

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 908-916

  Tyson, John J ^a   Chen, Kathy ^a   Novak, Bela ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; MACROMOLECULE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

CELL CYCLE; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN P34CDC2; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE PROTEINS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 0035656416     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35103078     Document Type: Review

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