Bio-logic: Gene expression and the laws of combinatorial logic

Artificial Life

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-133

  Schilstra, Maria J ^a   Nehaniv, Chrystopher L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combinatorial logic; Enzyme kinetics; Genetic regulatory networks; Modeling; Non Boolean continuous logic; Transcription regulation

Indexed keywords

ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME KINETICS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

COMBINATORIAL LOGIC; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORK;

BIOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOGIC; METABOLISM; PROTEIN BINDING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LOGIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN BINDING; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 38049095819     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: 15309185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/artl.2008.14.1.121     Document Type: Article

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