Summing up the noise in gene networks

Nature

Volumn 427, Issue 6973, 2004, Pages 415-418

  Paulsson, Johan ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENES; PROTEINS; RNA;

GENETIC NETWORKS;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; RNA;

GENE;

CHEMICAL REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; THEORY;

CHROMOSOMES; DNA REPLICATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TERMINOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0842285841     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02257     Document Type: Review

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