INDEX
A
Adaptive landscape...............................................237–239
Algorithms............................ 29, 30, 73, 79, 91, 92,103,
119, 138, 139, 160, 252, 288, 299, 314, 320,
335, 346, 348, 354
Angiogenesis......................................133, 151, 218, 219,
221, 223, 235
Apoptosis...................................100, 135, 136, 143, 144,
153–155, 157, 158, 219, 221, 235, 266, 271
Asymmetry............................................................236, 241
Attractors.........30, 34, 50, 96,101, 102, 223–225, 227,
234–238
B
Basement membrane (BM)........................................7, 91
Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction .................148, 182, 184
Bifurcation........................ 71, 72,81–86, 88, 89, 93, 98,
104, 127, 132, 135, 138–142, 159, 160, 163,
164, 192, 204, 251
Binarization ..........................................................320, 347
Bioinformatics..................... 92,237, 238, 248, 270, 347
Biophysical constraints..................................................129
Bistable response...........................................................186
Bottom-up causation........................................................ 3
Breast cancer cells MCF-7............................................146
Brusselator equations.................182, 184, 185, 191, 196
C
Cancer
regression.................................................................217
stem cell...................................................................216
therapy...........................................128, 227, 235, 236
Cell
adhesion.........................................105, 218, 219, 223
cycle .....................................196, 218, 219, 221, 223,
234, 253, 258, 259, 312, 338
density...................................105, 107, 119, 135, 312
Ips cells....................................................................219
membrane..............................................107, 277, 346
morphology..............................................29,100, 346
motility..................................................105, 107, 346
pluripotent cell...............................................190, 219
progenitor cell................................................196, 216
stem cell.................................. 9, 11, 12, 28,216, 219
Cell profiler..........................................348, 352, 354, 358
Cellular-automata........................................204, 206, 308
Chromatin .......................................................... 12,33–37
Coherence................................................23, 42,225, 348
Collective behavior.........................................98,308, 324
Complexity ...........................................3, 4, 8, 16, 68, 97,
106, 127–129, 132, 133, 138, 142, 143,
145–162, 164, 171–177, 179, 181–186,
190–192, 195, 196, 198, 200, 203, 248, 307,
308, 319, 328
Complex systems theory.............................133, 149, 159
Computational biology........................................203–211
Confocal microscopy..................................106, 346, 347
Connectivity................................... 5,105, 255, 315, 319
Constraints ...........................................18–21, 23–25, 43,
46, 52, 58, 70, 71, 129, 130, 340, 341
COPASI (software)........................................92,139, 160
Cytoskeleton.........................................98,103, 106, 338,
346–348, 356
D
Data-driven analyses......................................................129
Default state (of the metazoan cell)............................... 23
Differentiation............................... 3, 8, 9, 11, 12,27–37,
95–100, 106, 117, 126, 142, 151, 153, 173, 190,
198, 234–236, 240, 271, 272
Dissipative dynamics.....................................................204
DNA repair................................................62–64, 66, 154
Dormant state (of the tumor).............................133, 135
Double-edge effect..............................................153, 217
Drug resistance.......................................7,128, 129, 155,
217, 236, 250
E
Electronic phenotype....................................................347
Emergence..................................... 7, 11, 18, 37, 97,102,
107, 121, 133, 159, 307, 315, 319
ENCODE (project)......................................................237
Entropy............................................ 75, 96, 97,106, 109,
118, 130, 131, 133, 143, 144, 146–154,
156–159, 162–164, 198, 199, 348
Epigenetic................................................... 3, 8, 9, 11, 30,
33–37, 196, 219, 238, 247
Epistemology....................................................1, 7, 21, 23
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7456-6,©Springer Science+Business Media LLC 2018
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