How do control-based approaches enter into biology?

Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages 369-396

  Leduc, Philip R ^a   Messner, William C ^a   Wikswo, John P ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cells; Control integration; Control theory; Feedback; Input output; Molecules; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; CELLULAR PROCESS; CELLULAR SYSTEM; CONTROL INTEGRATION; CONTROL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR; FEED-FORWARD; FEEDBACK APPROACH; GENETIC MANIPULATIONS; INPUT-OUTPUT; MOLECULAR PROCESS; NONLINEAR; POTENTIAL METHODS;

CELLULAR ARRAYS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY;

CELLS;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; BIOSENSOR; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL STIMULATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICROFLUIDICS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; CELLS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 79960476385     PISSN: 15239829     EISSN: 15454274     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-bioeng-071910-124651     Document Type: Article

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