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In this introductory chapter, I have tried to describe things as simply as possible, yet to give (espacially at the end of section 3) an insight into the real complexity of the systems. The aim is to illustrate the biological interest of this type of circuits, and at the same time suggest that it may be worthwhile to treat them in more formal terms.
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Thomas, R. (1979). Verbal description of two well-documented genetic circuits : the lactose system in the bacterium E. coli, and immunity in bacteriophage lambda. In: Thomas, R. (eds) Kinetic Logic A Boolean Approach to the Analysis of Complex Regulatory Systems. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49321-8_1
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