Memory switches in chemical reaction space

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a,b   Bhalla, Upinder S ^c  

^a State University   (United States)

^b Institute of Bioinformatics and Applied Biotechnology   (India)

^c TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; ELECTRIC SWITCHES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOPOLOGY;

BI-STABILITY; BIOCHEMICAL SWITCHES; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; BISTABLE SYSTEM; BOOLEAN GATE; DIFFERENTIATION RESPONSE; ELECTRONICS CIRCUITS; REACTION SPACES; SIMPLE++; SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION;

MOLECULES;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STOICHIOMETRY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENERGY TRANSFER; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 48249133689     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000122     Document Type: Article

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