Living on the edge of chaos: Minimally nonlinear models of genetic regulatory dynamics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1933, 2010, Pages 5583-5596

  Hanel, Rudolf ^a   Pöchacker, Manfred ^a   Thurner, Stefan ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell dynamics; Dynamic critical phenomena; Reactions in complex biological systems; Regulatory chemical networks

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; CATALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BASIC PROPERTIES; BIOLOGICAL REACTION; CATALYTIC REACTIONS; CELL DYNAMICS; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC CRITICAL PHENOMENA; DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES; EDGE OF CHAOS; EXPRESSION LEVELS; FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORKS; INTERACTION NETWORKS; LYAPUNOV SPECTRUM; MOLECULAR CONCENTRATION; NON-LINEAR MODEL; NON-LINEARITY; NON-TRIVIAL; OSCILLATING SOLUTIONS; OSCILLATORY MODE; REACTION NETWORK; REGULATORY CHEMICAL NETWORKS; REGULATORY DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CATALYSIS; HUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; OSCILLOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CATALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OSCILLOMETRY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 78650467651     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0267     Document Type: Article

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