A coherent feedforward loop design principle to sustain robustness of biological networks

Bioinformatics

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 630-637

  Le, Duc Hau ^a,b   Kwon, Yung Keun ^a  

^a University of Ulsan   (South Korea)

^b Water Resources University   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84874722836     PISSN: 13674803     EISSN: 14602059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt026     Document Type: Article

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