Multiscale modeling of mucosal immune responses

BMC Bioinformatics

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Mei, Yongguo ^a   Abedi, Vida ^a   Carbo, Adria ^b   Zhang, Xiaoying ^a   Lu, Pinyi ^a   Philipson, Casandra ^a   Hontecillas, Raquel ^a   Hoops, Stefan ^a   Liles, Nathan ^a   Bassaganya Riera, Josep ^a  

^a VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BIOTHERAPEUTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based modeling; Computational biology; Multiscale modeling; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; BIOINFORMATICS; CELL SIGNALING; CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYTOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PATHOLOGY; SOFTWARE AGENTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; T-CELLS; TISSUE;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; CELL-CELL INTERACTION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE; MUCOSAL IMMUNE RESPONSE; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; PDE (PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS); SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84961566740     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-16-S12-S2     Document Type: Article

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