Models at the single cell level

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-48

  Cheong, Raymond ^a   Paliwal, Saurabh ^a   Levchenko, Andre ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79952115929     PISSN: 19395094     EISSN: 1939005X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wsbm.49     Document Type: Review

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