Mesoscale modeling of the Bacillus thuringiensis sporulation network based on stochastic kinetics and its application for in silico scale-down

HiBi09 - 2009 International Workshop on High Performance Computational Systems Biology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3-12

  González, Andrés ^a   Castro, Harold ^a   Villamizar, Mario ^a   Cuervo, Nicolás ^a   Lozano, Gabriel ^a   Restrepo, Silvia ^a   Orduz, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Bacillus thuringiensis; Opportunistic computing; Oscillation of oxygen; Sporulation; Virtual cluster infrastructure

Indexed keywords

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; COMPUTER POWER; COMPUTER ROOMS; EFFECT OF OXYGEN; GAUSSIANS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIUM; IDLE TIME; IN-SILICO; LOW COSTS; MASTER EQUATIONS; MESOSCALE MODEL; MESOSCALE MODELING; NETWORK-BASED; SCALE-DOWN; STOCHASTIC KINETICS; VIRTUAL CLUSTERS; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

BIOLOGY; OXYGEN; PHOSPHORYLATION; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BACTERIOLOGY;

EID: 73449092506     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HiBi.2009.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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