How to make a synthetic multicellular computer

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Macia, Javier ^a,b   Sole, Ricard ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SYSTEM; ELECTRONICS; ENGINEERING; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROCESS DESIGN; VALIDATION PROCESS; ALGORITHM; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; PROCEDURES; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTERS, MOLECULAR; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

EID: 84897753448     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081248     Document Type: Article

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