Implementation of a discrete event simulator for biological self-assembly systems

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 2223-2231

  Tiequan, Zhang ^a   Rohlfs, Rori ^a   Schwartz, Russell ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; VIRUSES;

GENERIC MODELS; INTERACTIVE GRAPHICAL TOOLS; SIMULATION TOOLS; SIMULATOR MODELS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 33846693796     PISSN: 08917736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2005.1574510     Document Type: Conference Paper

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