Rene Thomas (science)
Encyclopedia
René Thomas is a Belgian
scientist, and professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
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on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on molecular biology
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presented by Thomas has been receiving increasing attention as an alternative to traditional ODE
(continuous) modeling of the regulatory networks.
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
scientist, and professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles
Université Libre de Bruxelles
The Université libre de Bruxelles is a French-speaking university in Brussels, Belgium. It has 21,000 students, 29% of whom come from abroad, and an equally cosmopolitan staff.-Name:...
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Awards
In 1975, he was awarded the Francqui PrizeFrancqui Prize
The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgian scholarly and scientific prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist...
on Biological and Medical Sciences for his work on molecular biology
Molecular biology
Molecular biology is the branch of biology that deals with the molecular basis of biological activity. This field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry...
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Works
The discrete model of biological regulatory networksGene regulatory network
A gene regulatory network or genetic regulatory network is a collection of DNA segments in a cell whichinteract with each other indirectly and with other substances in the cell, thereby governing the rates at which genes in the network are transcribed into mRNA.In general, each mRNA molecule goes...
presented by Thomas has been receiving increasing attention as an alternative to traditional ODE
Ordinary differential equation
In mathematics, an ordinary differential equation is a relation that contains functions of only one independent variable, and one or more of their derivatives with respect to that variable....
(continuous) modeling of the regulatory networks.