The unconventionality of nature: Biology, from noise to functional randomness

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9252, Issue , 2015, Pages 3-34

  Bravi, Barbara ^a   Longo, Giuseppe ^b,c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Noise biology; Randomness; Resilience; Variability

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

BIOCHEMICAL EQUATIONS; BIOLOGICAL ROBUSTNESS; CONSERVATION PROPERTIES; DIVERSITY; RANDOMNESS; RESILIENCE; STOCHASTIC GENE EXPRESSIONS; VARIABILITY;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 84943631794     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21819-9_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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