Agent-based simulation of reactions in the crowded and structured intracellular environment: Influence of mobility and location of the reactants

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Klann, Michael T ^a,b   Lapin, Alexei ^b   Reuss, Matthias ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79955815642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-71     Document Type: Article

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