CTRL: Extension of CTL with regular expressions and fairness operators to verify genetic regulatory networks

Theoretical Computer Science

Volumn 412, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 2854-2883

  Mateescu, Radu ^a   Monteiro, Pedro T ^a,b   Dumas, Estelle ^a   De Jong, Hidde ^a  

^a INRIA RHÔNE ALPES   (France)

^b INESC ID   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Genetic regulatory networks; Model checking; Systems biology; Temporal logic; Verification

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; CARBON STARVATION; COMPUTATION TREES; CONCURRENT SYSTEMS; FAIRNESS PROPERTIES; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORKS; HENNESSY-MILNER LOGICS; MODEL CHECKER; MULTISTABILITY; ON-THE-FLY; OSCILLATION PROPERTY; RECURSIONS; REGULAR EXPRESSIONS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TEMPORAL OPERATORS;

BIOLOGY; CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; TEMPORAL LOGIC;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 79955717048     PISSN: 03043975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2010.05.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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