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ReviewPhysical biology2017

Quantitative computational models of molecular self-assembly in systems biology.

Marcus Thomas, Russell Schwartz

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Review in Physical biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marcus ThomasComputational Biology Department, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America. Joint Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States of America.
Russell Schwartz

Funding

Integrated Interdisciplinary, inter-university PhD Program Computational Biology (T32)T32EB009403 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BAHAR, IVET, BAR-JOSEPH, ZIV · 2009 to 2023
$4.4M
MECHANISMS ENSURING SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT GPCR RECYCLINGR01GM117425 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI PUTHENVEEDU, MANOJKUMAR A · 2016 to 2020
$1.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB009403NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117425
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular self-assembly is the dominant form of chemical reaction in living systems, yet efforts at systems biology modeling are only beginning to appreciate the need for and challenges to accurate quantitative modeling of self-assembly. Self-assembly reactions are essential to nearly every important process in cell and molecular biology and handling them is thus a necessary step in building comprehensive models of complex cellular systems. They present exceptional challenges, however, to standard methods for simulating complex systems. While the general systems biology world is just beginning to deal with these challenges, there is an extensive literature dealing with them for more specialized self-assembly modeling. This review will examine the challenges of self-assembly modeling, nascent efforts to deal with these challenges in the systems modeling community, and some of the solutions offered in prior work on self-assembly specifically. The review concludes with some consideration of the likely role of self-assembly in the future of complex biological system models more generally.

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Models, BiologicalSystems BiologyVirus Assembly

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PMID28535149
PMCPMC5724555

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