Symmetry in biology: From genetic code to stochastic gene regulation

IET Systems Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 311-329

  Ramos, A F ^a   Innocentini, G C P ^a   Forger, F M ^a   Hornos, J E M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRAIC APPROACHES; BUILDING BLOCKES; CODING RULE; COMPLEX SYSTEMS; CURRENT CODES; DYNAMICAL SYMMETRY; FINAL STATE; GENE REGULATIONS; GENE SWITCH; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC NETWORKS; GROUP-THEORETICAL METHODS; INITIAL STATE; LORENTZ; QUANTITATIVE DESCRIPTION; REGULATED GENES; STOCHASTIC MODELLING;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77956630040     PISSN: 17518849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2010.0058     Document Type: Article

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