In Silico Biology: From Simulation to Understanding

Current Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Kollmann, Markus ^a   Sourjik, Victor ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 33846899178     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.12.034     Document Type: Short Survey

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