Toward rigorous comprehension of biological complexity: Modeling, execution, and visualization of thymic T-cell maturation

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2485-2497

  Efroni, Sol ^a   Harel, David ^a   Cohen, Irun R ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; THEORY; THYMUS;

CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITHELIAL CELLS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOFTWARE; STEM CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0242574975     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1215303     Document Type: Review

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