Design of genetic switches with only positive feedback loops

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference, CSB 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 151-162

  Kobayashi, T ^a   Chen, Luonan ^b   Aihara, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

delay; genetic network; monotone dynamical system; stability; switch

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FEEDBACK; GENES; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SWITCHES; TIME DELAY;

DELAY; DYNAMICAL THEORY; FUNCTIONAL SPACES; GENETIC NETWORKS; GENETIC SWITCHES; MONOTONE DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; STABLE OSCILLATIONS;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 18244403765     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSB.2002.1039338     Document Type: Conference Paper

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