Title
Bigraphical Models For Protein And Membrane Interactions
Abstract
We present a bigraphical framework suited for modeling biological systems both at protein level and at membrane level. We characterize formally bigraphs corresponding to biologically meaningful systems, and bigraphic rewriting rules representing biologically admissible interactions. At the protein level, these bigraphic reactive systems correspond exactly to systems of kappa-calculus. Membrane-level interactions are represented by just two general rules, whose application can be triggered by protein-level interactions in a well-defined and precise way.This framework can be used to compare and merge models at different abstraction levels; in particular, higher-level (e.g. mobility) activities can be given a formal biological justification in terms of low-level (i.e., protein) interactions. As examples, we formalize in our framework the vesiculation and the phagocytosis processes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.4204/EPTCS.11.1
ELECTRONIC PROCEEDINGS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
biological systems,reactive system,quantitative method
Bigraph,Computer science,Design choice,Concurrency,Systems biology,Rewriting,Artificial intelligence,Soundness,Metamodeling,Machine learning,Abstract machine
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
abs/0911.4
11
2075-2180
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.58
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Giorgio Bacci17311.28
Davide Grohmann2595.71
Marino Miculan350243.24