How to Synchronize Biological Clocks
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How to Synchronize Biological Clocks
This paper is concerned with a novel algorithm to study networks of biological clocks. A new set of conditions is established that can be used to verify whether an existing network synchronizes or to give guidelines to construct a new synthetic network of biological oscillators that synchronize. The methodology uses the so-called contraction theory from dynamical system theory and Gershgorin di...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Computational Biology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1066-5277,1557-8666
DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2008.21tt