Design Principles of Regulatory Networks: Searching for the Molecular Algorithms of the Cell

Molecular Cell

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 202-212

  Lim, Wendell A ^a,b   Lee, Connie M ^a,b   Tang, Chao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE;

ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; ARCHITECTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELLS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ELECTRON; HUMAN; PROTEOMICS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; PROTEOMICS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84872824241     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: 10974164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2012.12.020     Document Type: Review

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