Accounting for diffusion in agent based models of reaction-diffusion systems with application to Cytoskeletal diffusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Azimi, Mohammad ^a   Jamali, Yousef ^a   Mofrad, Mohammad R K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PARTICLE SIZE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; VISCOSITY; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; DIFFUSION; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053105909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025306     Document Type: Article

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