Optimal Noise Filtering in the Chemotactic Response of Escherichia coli
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Optimal Noise Filtering in the Chemotactic Response of Escherichia coli
Information-carrying signals in the real world are often obscured by noise. A challenge for any system is to filter the signal from the corrupting noise. This task is particularly acute for the signal transduction network that mediates bacterial chemotaxis, because the signals are subtle, the noise arising from stochastic fluctuations is substantial, and the system is effectively acting as a di...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Computational Biology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1553-734X,1553-7358
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020154