A unifying mathematical framework for genetic robustness, environmental robustness, network robustness and their trade-offs on phenotype robustness in biological networks. Part III: Synthetic gene networks in synthetic biology

Evolutionary Bioinformatics

Volumn 2013, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 87-109

  Chen, Bor Sen ^a   Lin, Ying Po ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Gene network; Network robustness; Network sensitivity; Phenotype robustness; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 84874577390     PISSN: 11769343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4137/EBO.S10686     Document Type: Article

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