Engineering in the biological substrate: Information processing in genetic circuits

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 848-863

  Simpson, Michael L ^a,b   Cox, Chris D ^b,c   Peterson, Gregory D ^b,c   Sayler, Gary S ^c  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene circuit simulation; Gene circuits; Stochastic gene expression analysis; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEEDBACK; GENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); NEURAL NETWORKS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

GENE CIRCUIT SIMULATION; GENE CIRCUITS; STOCHASTIC GENE EXPRESSION ANALYSIS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 5644289657     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2004.826600     Document Type: Conference Paper

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