Casting polymer nets to optimize noisy molecular codes

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 24, 2008, Pages 8238-8243

  Tlusty, Tsvi ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Biochemical networks; Information theory; Polymer networks; Rate distortion theory

Indexed keywords

POLYMER;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DRIFT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

GENETIC CODE; INFORMATION THEORY; LIFE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POLYMERS;

EID: 46149107655     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710274105     Document Type: Article

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