Stabilizing patterning in the Drosophila segment polarity network by selecting models in silico

BioSystems

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-10

  Stoll, Gautier ^a,b,c   Bischofberger, Mirko ^d,e   Rougemont, Jacques ^d,e   Naef, Felix ^d,e  

^a INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^b INSERM U900   (France)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discrete models; Drosophila development; Segment polarity network; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; GENE EXPRESSION; MUTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROTEIN; SEGMENTATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO POLARITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 77957263267     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2010.07.014     Document Type: Article

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