Design and analysis of molecular relay channels: An information theoretic approach

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 213-221

  Nakano, Tadashi ^a   Liu, Jian Qin ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium signaling; molecular relay channel; mutual information

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMMUNICATION CAPACITY; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; INFORMATION COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION-THEORETIC APPROACH; MOLECULAR RELAY CHANNEL; MOLECULAR RELAYS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; SIGNAL MOLECULES;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CALCIUM; DESIGN; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNALING; TRANSMITTERS;

CHANNEL CAPACITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; INFORMATION THEORY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NANOTECHNOLOGY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77956270381     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2010.2050070     Document Type: Article

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