Isolating intrinsic noise sources in a stochastic genetic switch

Physical Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Newby, Jay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION;

BACTERIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, GENETIC; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84859575994     PISSN: 14783967     EISSN: 14783975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1478-3975/9/2/026002     Document Type: Article

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