Stability and flexibility from a system analysis of gene regulatory networks based on ordinary differential equations

Open Bioinformatics Journal

Volumn 5, Issue , 2011, Pages 26-33

  Gustafsson, Mika ^a   Hörnquist, Michael ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Dynamical modeling; Gene expression; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM ERROR; REVIEW; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79959961853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18750362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/1875036201105010026     Document Type: Review

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