A minimal and self-consistent in silico cell model based on macromolecular interactions

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1486, 2007, Pages 1831-1839

  Flamm, Christoph ^a,b   Endler, Lukas ^a   Müller, Stefan ^c   Widder, Stefanie ^a   Schuster, Peter ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c JOHANN RADON INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (Austria)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical ordinary differential equation solver; Cooperativity; Genetic regulatory network; Metabolic network; Systems biology markup language

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 35148834742     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2075     Document Type: Article

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