Exhaustive analysis of the modular structure of the spliceosomal assembly network: A Petri net approach

In Silico Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 89-123

  Bortfeldt, Ralf H ^a   Schuster, Stefan ^a   Koch, Ina ^b,c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; MCTS; Pathway analysis; Petri net theory; Regulated splicing; Signal transduction networks; Spliceosome; T clusters; T invariants

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RNA;

ALGORITHM; ALLOSTERISM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLICEOSOME;

ALGORITHMS; ALLOSTERIC REGULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPS; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA, SMALL NUCLEAR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; SPLICEOSOMES;

EID: 77952035086     PISSN: 14343207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ISB-2010-0419     Document Type: Article

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