A computational study of liposome logic: Towards cellular computing from the bottom up

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 157-179

  Smaldon, James ^a   Romero Campero, Francisco J ^a   Fernández Trillo, Francisco ^a   Gheorghe, Marian ^b   Alexander, Cameron ^a   Krasnogor, Natalio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cellular computing; Chells; Dissipative particle dynamics; Logic gates; Model checking; Protocells; Simulation and modelling; Stochastic simulation; Synthetic biology; Vesicle computing

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77958513198     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-010-9060-5     Document Type: Article

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