Modelling biological clocks with bio-pepa: Stochasticity and robustness for the neurospora crassa circadian network

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5688 LNBI, Issue , 2009, Pages 52-67

  Akman, Ozgur E ^a   Ciocchetta, Federica ^b   Degasperi, Andrea ^a   Guerriero, Maria Luisa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE OF OSCILLATION; BIOCHEMICAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL CLOCK; BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; CIRCADIAN CLOCK; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DISCRETE TIME; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LIVING ORGANISMS; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; PROCESS ALGEBRAS; STOCHASTICITY; TIME-DEPENDENT;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FEEDBACK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEINS; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CLOCKS;

EID: 70349311850     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03845-7_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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