Molecular economics: New computer models calculate systems-wide costs of gene expression
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 05:00
in Biology & Nature
(Phys.org) -- Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a method of modeling, simultaneously, an organisms metabolism and its underlying gene expression. In the emerging field of systems biology, scientists model cellular behavior in order to understand how processes such as metabolism and gene expression relate to one another and bring about certain characteristics in the larger organism.