A deterministic map of Waddington's epigenetic landscape for cell fate specification

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Sudin ^a   Zhang, Qiang ^a   Andersen, Melvin E ^a  

^a HAMNER INSTITUTES FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; HUMAN; KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79957461243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-5-85     Document Type: Article

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