Simulating the cellular passive transport of glucose using a time-dependent extension of Gillespie algorithm for stochastic π-calculus

International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 315-336

  Lecca, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biochemical systems modelling; Bioinformatics; Chemical kinetics simulation; Data mining; Gillespie algorithm; Glucose passive transport; Stochastic calculus

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSPORT AT THE CELLULAR LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLUCOSE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 43849086290     PISSN: 17485673     EISSN: 17485681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJDMB.2007.012963     Document Type: Article

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