Systems biochemistry in practice: Experimenting with modelling and understanding, with regulation and control

Biochemical Society Transactions

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1189-1196

  Westerhoff, Hans V ^a,b   Verma, Malkhey ^a   Nardelli, Maria ^a   Adamczyk, Malgorzata ^a   Van Eunen, Karen ^b,c   Simeonidis, Evangelos ^a   Bakker, Barbara M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complexity; Control analysis; Regulation analysis; Systems biology; Yeast

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BIOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 77957278546     PISSN: 03005127     EISSN: 14708752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BST0381189     Document Type: Review

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