Finding fractal patterns in molecular interaction networks: A case study in Alzheimer's disease

International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 340-352

  Wu, Xiaogang ^a   Huan, Tianxiao ^b   Pandey, Ragini ^a   Zhou, Tianshou ^c   Chen, Jake Y ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

ACO; AD; Alzheimer's Disease; Ant Colony Optimisation; Fractal; Molecular interaction network; Scale free

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANT COLONY OPTIMISATION; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICINE; CASE STUDY; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SELF CONCEPT; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77951688540     PISSN: 17560756     EISSN: 17560764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCBDD.2009.030765     Document Type: Article

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