Transforming Boolean models to continuous models: Methodology and application to T-cell receptor signaling

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 98-

  Wittmann, Dominik M ^a,b   Krumsiek, Jan ^a   Saez Rodriguez, Julio ^c,d   Lauffenburger, Douglas A ^c   Klamt, Steffen ^e   Theis, Fabian J ^a,b,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX TECHNICAL SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DYNAMICS AND SELF ORGANIZATION   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 70449481350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-3-98     Document Type: Article

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