Causality, randomness, intelligibility, and the epistemology of the cell

Current Genomics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 221-237

  Dougherty, Edward R ^a,b,c   Bittner, Michael L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Causality; Computational biology; Epistemology; Genomics; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; EPISTEMOLOGY; HUMAN; SCIENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77953668905     PISSN: 13892029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138920210791233072     Document Type: Article

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