Simulation of communication and cooperation in multispecies bacterial communities with an agent based model

Scalable Computing

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-28

  Bihary, Dóra ^a   Kerényi, Ádám ^b   Gelencsér, Zsolt ^a   Netotea, Sergiu ^c   Kertész Farkas, Attila ^d   Venturi, Vittorio ^d   Pongor, Sándor ^a,b,d  

^a PÁZMÁNY PÉTER CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Hungary)

^c UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fitness; Hybrid model; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Quorum sensing; Segregation; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; BACTERIAL SPECIES; CHEMICAL MATERIALS; COMMUNICATION SIGNALS; FITNESS; HYBRID MODEL; LARGE SCALE SIMULATIONS; MICROBIAL SPECIES; MULTI-SPECIES; NUMERICAL INDEX; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC GOODS; QUORUM-SENSING; SINGLE SPECIES;

COMMUNICATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA VISUALIZATION; NUTRIENTS; SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY); STATISTICS;

BACTERIA;

EID: 84864815268     PISSN: 18951767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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