Systems approaches for synthetic biology: A pathway toward mammalian design

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4, Issue OCT, 2013, Pages

  Rekhi, Rahul ^a   Qutub, Amina A ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational biology; Gene circuits; Mammalian cell; Multiscale modeling; Regenerative medicine; Signaling network; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CELL ENGINEERING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GILLESPIE ALGORITHM; GRAPH THEORY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMAL CELL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; NONHUMAN; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY; SYSTEMS THEORY;

EID: 84903272043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00285     Document Type: Article

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