Accelerating Gene Regulatory Network Modeling Using Grid-Based Simulation

Simulation

Volumn 80, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 231-241

  Mccollum, James M ^a   Peterson, Gregory D ^a   Cox, Chris D ^a   Simpson, Michael L ^a  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; gene regulatory networks; grid based simulation; performance model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GRID BASED SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 3342938451     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549704045051     Document Type: Article

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