RaTrav: A tool for calculating mean first-passage times on biochemical networks

BMC Systems Biology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Torchala, Mieczyslaw ^a   Chelminiak, Przemyslaw ^b   Kurzynski, Michal ^b   Bates, Paul A ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Chemical kinetics; Complex networks; Free energy transduction; Hill's method; Markov processes; Master equation; Mean first passage time; Monte Carlo method; Protein protein binding funnel; Protein protein docking; Protein protein interactions; Random walk; Stationary flux

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; PROTEIN BINDING;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ENZYMES; MARKOV CHAINS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOFTWARE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84887914141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17520509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-7-130     Document Type: Article

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