Information processing by simple molecular motifs and susceptibility to noise

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 110, 2015, Pages

  McMahon, Siobhan S ^a   Lenive, Oleg ^a   Filippi, Sarah ^b   Stumpf, Michael P H ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Extrinsic noise; Gene expression; Intrinsic noise; Mutual information; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE NETWORKS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; GENE EXPRESSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; EXTRINSIC NOISE; INFORMATION CHANNELS; INTRINSIC NOISE; MOLECULAR COMPONENTS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; RELIABILITY OF INFORMATION; SOURCES OF VARIABILITY;

SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

MESSENGER RNA;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KERNEL METHOD; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEADY STATE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84942021497     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0597     Document Type: Article

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