'Environment': A stochastic simulation platform to study protocell dynamics

Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BIOCOMP 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 934-941

  Mavelli, F ^a   Lerario, M ^a   Ruiz Mirazo, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Protocell modeling; Stochastic chemical kinetics; Vesicle dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL CELLS; ARTIFICIAL CHEMISTRY MODELS; BIOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; CELLULAR SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORMS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES; HETEROGENEOUS CONDITIONS; PROTOCELL MODELING; REACTION NETWORKS; SELF- ASSEMBLIES; STOCHASTIC CHEMICAL KINETICS; STOCHASTIC KINETICS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS; TIME EVOLUTIONS; VESICLE DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; OLEIC ACID; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 62649174889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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