Prologue - Mind over molecule: Activating biological demons

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1123, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Noble, Denis ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BALLIOL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computational physiology; Genetic determinism; Human physiome project; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

DNA; RNA;

BIOLOGY; BRAIN; CELL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; HEREDITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; THEORY;

EID: 41149109075     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1420.000     Document Type: Conference Paper

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