Evolution of gene regulatory networks: Robustness as an emergent property of evolution

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 387, Issue 8-9, 2008, Pages 2170-2186

  Krishnan, Arun ^a   Tomita, Masaru ^a   Giuliani, Alessandro ^b  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Gene expression regulation; Networks

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS (GRN); GENOTYPES; ROBUST SYSTEMS;

TRANSCRIPTION;

EID: 38349032624     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.11.022     Document Type: Article

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