Stochastic probability landscape model for switching efficiency, robustness, and differential threshold for induction of genetic circuit in phage λ

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 611-614

  Cao, Youfang ^a   Lu, Hsiao Mei ^b   Liang, Jie ^a,b  

^a Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai   (China)

^b University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CELL FATES; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGIES; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLDS; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GENETIC CIRCUITS; LANDSCAPE MODELS; STABILITY AND ROBUSTNESS; STEADY-STATE PROBABILITIES; STOCHASTICITY; SWITCH NETWORKS; SWITCHING EFFICIENCIES; THEORETICAL STUDIES; WILD TYPES;

SWITCHING CIRCUITS;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA VIRUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LYSOGENIZATION; PROMOTER REGION; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA VIRUSES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, VIRAL; LYSOGENY; MODELS, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; VIRUS ACTIVATION;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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