Evolutionary optimization of guiding track designs for molecular shuttles powered by kinesin motors

Proceedings of Conference, MicroTAS 2009 - The 13th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 207-209

  Sunagawa, Takuya ^a   Tanahashi, Akihito ^a   Hirano, Motohisa ^a   Downs, Matthew E ^b   Hess, Henry ^b   Nitta, Takahiro ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Computer aided design; Genetic algorithm; Kinesin; Microtubule

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; GENETIC ALGORITHMS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY OPTIMIZATIONS; KINESINS; MICROTUBULES; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; REAL-PARAMETER GENETIC ALGORITHM; SIMULATED PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84901801517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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