Computational modeling of cellular signaling processes embedded into dynamic spatial contexts

Nature Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 283-289

  Angermann, Bastian R ^a   Klauschen, Frederick ^a,b   Garcia, Alex D ^a   Prustel, Thorsten ^a   Zhang, Fengkai ^a   Germain, Ronald N ^a   Meier Schellersheim, Martin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHEROMONE; UVOMORULIN;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84862777639     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1861     Document Type: Article

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