From artificial life to in silico medicine: NetLogo as a means of translational knowledge representation in biomedical research

Artificial Life Models in Software (Second Edition)

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 183-214

  An, Gary ^a   Wilensky, Uri ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84882-285-6_7     Document Type: Chapter

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