Motifs in Brain Networks

PLoS Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2004, Pages

  Sporns, Olaf ^a   Kötter, Rolf ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CYTOARCHITECTURE; HYPOTHESIS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MACACA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MACACA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NERVE NET; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEURONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 13844284450     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020369     Document Type: Article

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