Maps, books and other metaphors for systems biology

BioSystems

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 6-10

  Ouzounis, Christos ^a   Mazière, Pierre ^a  

^a EUROPEAN BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Metaphors; Molecular biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MAP; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; TEXTBOOK;

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; LITERATURE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 33744940041     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2006.02.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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