Noise in biology

Reports on Progress in Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Tsimring, Lev S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

gene networks; information transmission; morphogenesis; population dynamics; signaling; stochasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84893341950     PISSN: 00344885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/77/2/026601     Document Type: Review

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