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Main Authors: Andrea Sottoriva, Louis Vermeulen, Simon Tavaré
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3088646?pdf=render