Individual-based modeling of bacterial foraging with quorum sensing in a time-varying environment

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4447 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 280-290

  Tang, W J ^a   Wu, Q H ^a   Saunders, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL FORAGING; CONSEQUENTIAL MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY; INDIVIDUAL BASED MODELING (IBM); QUORUM SENSING;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 38049057299     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71783-6_27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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