Evolving homeostatic tissue using genetic algorithms

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 414-425

  Gerlee, Philip ^a,b   Basanta, David ^c   Anderson, Alexander R A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Integrated Mathematical Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Evolutionary algorithm; Homeostasis; Hybrid cellular automata; Mutation; Robustness; Signaling network; Wounding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INJURY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 80051626353     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2011.03.004     Document Type: Review

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