Question 8: Bridging the gap between in silico and in vitro approaches to minimal cells

Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres

Volumn 37, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 455-458

  Mavelli, Fabio ^a   Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autocatalysis; Osmotic crisis; Protocell (vesicle) dynamics; Self assembly; Stochastic kinetics (Gillespie method)

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; CELL ORGANELLE; SILICON; STOCHASTICITY;

BUFFER; LIPID;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMISTRY;

BUFFERS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; LIPIDS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 34548044464     PISSN: 01696149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11084-007-9085-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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