Digital clocks: Simple Boolean models can quantitatively describe circadian systems

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 74, 2012, Pages 2365-2382

  Akman, Ozgur E ^a,c   Watterson, Steven ^b,c   Parton, Andrew ^c   Binns, Nigel ^b   Millar, Andrew J ^c   Ghazal, Peter ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis thaliana; Boolean logic; Circadian gene networks; Photoperiodism; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; GENE EXPRESSION; PLANTS (BOTANY); STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; BOOLEAN LOGIC; GENE NETWORKS; PHOTOPERIODISM; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

CLOCKS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPUTER MODEL; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LHY GENE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TOC1 GENE;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84866181814     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0080     Document Type: Article

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