Physical aspects of precision in genetic regulation

Journal of Biological Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 213-225

  Tamari, Zvi ^a   Barkai, Naama ^a   Fouxon, Itzhak ^b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Dimensionality; Monte Carlo simulation; Noise; Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC REGULATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE REDUCTION; NUCLEOTIDE BINDING SITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 79958238839     PISSN: 00920606     EISSN: 15730689     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10867-010-9208-2     Document Type: Article

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