Random Boolean network models and the yeast transcriptional network
Stuart Kauffman, Carsten Peterson, Björn Samuelsson, Carl Troein
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2003, 100 (25) 14796-14799; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2036429100,
nested Boolean canalizing functions look more like those found in biological networks. The appendices and supplementary material provide an algorithm for creating random functions that have this property.
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Random Boolean network models and the yeast transcriptional network Stuart Kauffman, Carsten Peterson, Björn Samuelsson, Carl Troein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2003, 100 (25) 14796-14799; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2036429100,
nested Boolean canalizing functions look more like those found in biological networks. The appendices and supplementary material provide an algorithm for creating random functions that have this property.