ENVIRONMENT: A computational platform to stochastically simulate reacting and self-reproducing lipid compartments

Physical Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Mavelli, Fabio ^a   Ruiz Mirazo, Kepa ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; MACROMOLECULE; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETICS; LIPIDS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 78349255859     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/7/3/036002     Document Type: Article

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