A New Improved and Extended Version of the Multicell Bacterial Simulator gro

ACS Synthetic Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1496-1508

  Gutiérrez, Martín ^a,b   Gregorio Godoy, Paula ^a   Pérez Del Pulgar, Guillermo ^a   Munoz, Luis E ^a   Sáez, Sandra ^a   Rodríguez Patón, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DIEGO PORTALES   (Chile)

Author keywords

bioCAD tools; cell cell interactions; cell shoving algorithm; gro; individual based model; intercellular communication; multicellular biocircuits; synthetic biology; synthetic microbial consortia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOFTWARE;

BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; SOFTWARE;

EID: 85027548145     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21615063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.7b00003     Document Type: Article

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