The engineering of gene regulatory networks

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue , 2003, Pages 179-206

  Kærn, Mads ^a   Blake, William J ^a   Collins, J J ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Circuits; Models; Modules; Noise; Switches

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SILICA;

ARTIFICIAL GENE NETWORKS; GENETIC INFORMATION; NATURAL GENE NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC MODELING;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

SYNTHETIC CONSTRUCT;

ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0642336165     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bioeng.5.040202.121553     Document Type: Review

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