A Flexible Mathematical Model Platform for Studying Branching Networks: Experimentally Validated Using the Model Actinomycete, Streptomyces coelicolor

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Nieminen, Leena ^a   Webb, Steven ^b   Smith, Margaret C M ^c   Hoskisson, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIBIOTIC BIOSYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL METABOLISM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; BRANCHED BIOLOGICAL NETWORK; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL METABOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; ROOT GROWTH; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STREPTOMYCES COELICOLOR;

EID: 84874176178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054316     Document Type: Article

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