MULTI-LEVEL DYNAMIC MODELING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - Application of Hybrid Petri Nets to Network Simulation

Rafael S. Costa, Daniel Machado, A. R. Neves, Susana Vinga

2012

Abstract

The recent progress in the high-throughput experimental technologies allows the reconstruction of many biological networks and to evaluate changes in proteins, genes and metabolites levels in different conditions. On the other hand, computational models, when complemented with regulatory information, can be used to predict the phenotype of an organism under different genetic and environmental conditions. These computational methods can be used for example to identify molecular targets capable of inactivating a bacterium and to understand its virulence factors. This work proposes a hybrid metabolic-regulatory Petri net approach that is based on the combination of approximate enzyme-kinetic rate laws and Petri nets. A prototypic network model is used as a test-case to illustrate the application of these concepts in Systems Biology.

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S. Costa R., Machado D., R. Neves A. and Vinga S. (2012). MULTI-LEVEL DYNAMIC MODELING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - Application of Hybrid Petri Nets to Network Simulation . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012) ISBN 978-989-8425-90-4, pages 317-321. DOI: 10.5220/0003785503170321


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@conference{bioinformatics12,
author={Rafael S. Costa and Daniel Machado and A. R. Neves and Susana Vinga},
title={MULTI-LEVEL DYNAMIC MODELING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - Application of Hybrid Petri Nets to Network Simulation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={317-321},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003785503170321},
isbn={978-989-8425-90-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Volume 1: BIOINFORMATICS, (BIOSTEC 2012)
TI - MULTI-LEVEL DYNAMIC MODELING IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS - Application of Hybrid Petri Nets to Network Simulation
SN - 978-989-8425-90-4
AU - S. Costa R.
AU - Machado D.
AU - R. Neves A.
AU - Vinga S.
PY - 2012
SP - 317
EP - 321
DO - 10.5220/0003785503170321