Reduction

In W. Dubitzky, O. Wolkenhauer, K.-H. Cho & H. Yokota (eds.), Encyclopedia of Systems Biology, Vol. X. New York, USA: Springer. pp. 1827-1830 (2013)
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This is a contribution to the encyclopedia of systems biology on reduction.

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