Variability and robustness in biomolecular systems.
The need to perform sophisticated information processing in an environment that is variable and noisy restricts the functional design of biological networks. We discuss several of the strategies that cells and multicellular organisms have evolved to deal with this demand.
Barkai
Naama
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Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel. naama.barkai@weizmann.ac.il
Shilo
Ben-Zion
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D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D007257:Information Theory; D008954:Models, Biological; D049490:Systems Biology