Multimodality and Flexibility of Stochastic Gene Expression

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2600-2630

  Innocentini, Guilherme da Costa Pereira ^a   Forger, Michael ^a   Ramos, Alexandre Ferreira ^a   Radulescu, Ovidiu ^b   Hornos, José Eduardo Martinho ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Noise reduction; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORK; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGION; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE REGULATORY NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS; MODELS, GENETIC; PROBABILITY; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84887579790     PISSN: 00928240     EISSN: 15229602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11538-013-9909-3     Document Type: Article

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