Zipf’s Law in Gene Expression

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 4-

  Furusawa, Chikara ^a   Kaneko, Kunihiko ^b  

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEM CELL;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; NEOPLASMS; RATS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84930062103     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.088102     Document Type: Article

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