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A cell in a computer

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The small genomes of some bacteria could provide the first complete understanding of a biological system. A new computer model brings this goal closer, by calculating every process in a dividing Mycoplasma cell.

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Figure 1: Looping calculations to model cell division.

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  1. Mark Isalan is at the EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation and UPF, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.,

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Isalan, M. A cell in a computer. Nature 488, 40–41 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/488040a

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