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Nature 409, 391-395 (18 January 2001) | doi:10.1038/35053181

feature Modelling cellular behaviour

Drew Endy1 & Roger Brent1

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Representations of cellular processes that can be used to compute their future behaviour would be of general scientific and practical value. But past attempts to construct such representations have been disappointing. This is now changing. Increases in biological understanding combined with advances in computational methods and in computer power make it possible to foresee construction of useful and predictive simulations of cellular processes.