An autonomous molecular computer for logical control of gene expression

Nature

Volumn 429, Issue 6990, 2004, Pages 423-429

  Benenson, Yaakov ^a   Gil, Binyamin ^a   Ben Dor, Uri ^a   Adar, Rivka ^a   Shapiro, Ehud ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSENSORS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DRUG PRODUCTS; GENES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; RNA; TUMORS;

ANTICANCER DRUGS; BIOMOLECULES; MOLECULAR COMPUTERS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; MESSENGER RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; DNA, ANTISENSE; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; DRUG DESIGN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENE THERAPY; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; POINT MUTATION; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RNA, MESSENGER; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 2642555548     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02551     Document Type: Article

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