A critical review on modelling formalisms and simulation tools in computational...

• Author(s): Machado, Daniel ; Costa, Rafael S. ; Rocha, Miguel ; Rocha, I. ; Tidor, Bruce ; Ferreira, E. C.
• Date: 2009
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/16627
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

Integration of different kinds of biological processes is an ultimate goal for whole-cell modelling. We briefly review modelling formalisms that have been used in Systems Biology and identify the criteria that must be addressed by an integrating framework capable of modelling, analysing and simulating different biological networks. Aware that no formalism can fit all purposes we realize Petri nets as a suitable model for Metabolic Engineering and take a deeper perspective on the role of this formalism as an integrating framework for regulatory and metabolic networks.