Explaining a complex living system: Dynamics, multi-scaling and emergence

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 4, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 175-182

  Cohen, Irun R ^a   Harel, David ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biological modelling; Emergence properties; Reactive animation; Reactive system

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENOMIC DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RNA;

ALGORITHM; B LYMPHOCYTE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTER MODEL; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LAW; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

EID: 34047105227     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2006.0173     Document Type: Review

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