Computing with proteins

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-56

  Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a   Bhalla, Upinder S ^b   Tyson, John J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Chemicals; Computational biology; Computers; DNA; Oscillators; Protein based computers; Proteins; Quantitative cell biology; Sugar; Switches

Indexed keywords

EID: 59849085820     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.12     Document Type: Article

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