Engineering simulations for cancer Systems Biology

Current Drug Targets

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1560-1574

  Bown, James ^a   Andrews, Paul S ^b   Deeni, Yusuf ^a   Goltsov, Alexey ^a   Idowu, Michael ^a   Polack, Fiona A C ^b   Sampson, Adam T ^a   Shovman, Mark ^a   Stepney, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Cellular signalling; Concurrent programming; Information visualisation; Linking scales; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3, 4, 5 TRISPHOSPHATE 3 PHOSPHATASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PROGNOSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOCUMENTATION; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; NEOPLASM; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TUMOR IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84870168926     PISSN: 13894501     EISSN: 18735592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/138945012803530071     Document Type: Article

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