Designing gene regulatory networks with specified functions

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2444-2450

  Chen, Luonan ^a,b,c,d   Wang, Ruiqi ^c,d  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OSAKA SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bistable switches; Cyclic; Feedback networks; Gene regulatory networks; Hybrid; Modules; Oscillators; Positive

Indexed keywords

RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

BISTABLE SWITCHES; FEEDBACK NETWORK; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 34548411346     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2006.883880     Document Type: Article

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