Computational implementation of a tunable multicellular memory circuit for engineered eukaryotic consortia

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Sardanyés, Josep ^a,b   Bonforti, Adriano ^a,b   Conde, Nuria ^a,b   Solé, Ricard ^a,b,c   Macia, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Eukaryotic memory circuits; Flip flop; Multicellular circuits; Synthetic biology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MACHINE LEARNING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MULTICELLULAR MEMORY CIRCUIT; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; YEAST CELL;

EID: 84946575742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00281     Document Type: Article

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