Publication Date:
2003-09-27
Description:
This viewpoint comments on recent advances in understanding the design principles of biological networks. It highlights the surprising discovery of "good-engineering" principles in biochemical circuitry that evolved by random tinkering.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Alon, U -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Sep 26;301(5641):1866-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100. urialon@weizmann.ac.il〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14512615" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Biochemical Phenomena
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Biochemistry
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*Biological Evolution
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*Biology
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DNA/metabolism
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Engineering
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*Models, Biological
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Proteins/metabolism
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Signal Transduction
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Systems Theory
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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