Design Principles of a Genetic Alarm Clock

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Albert, Jaroslav ^a   Rooman, Marianne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOREGULATION; GENE; GENE SWITCHING; GILLESPIE ALGORITHM; MOLECULAR CLOCK; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROMOTER REGION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84868689354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0047256     Document Type: Article

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