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Formalizing the Behavior of Biological Processes with Mobility

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New formal approaches and software tools are required to cope with ensembles and quantities in biology. We model spatial and dynamic biological processes using a rule-based model of computation called mobile membranes [1,2] in which mobility is the key issue. The different feature of this formalism is given by the rules applied in parallel, a realistic description in biology which is not possible in process calculi involving mobility. The parallel application of rules depends on the available resources.

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  1. Romanian Academy, Institute of Computer Science and A.I.Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania

    Bogdan Aman & Gabriel Ciobanu

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Auckland, Science Centre, 38 Princes Street, 1142, Auckland, New Zealand

    Cristian S. Calude

  2. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan

    Masami Hagiya

  3. Graduate School of Engineering, Department of Information Engineering, Hiroshima University, 739-8527, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

    Kenichi Morita

  4. Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

  5. Department of Computer Science and Department of Electronics, University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Jon Timmis

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Aman, B., Ciobanu, G. (2010). Formalizing the Behavior of Biological Processes with Mobility. In: Calude, C.S., Hagiya, M., Morita, K., Rozenberg, G., Timmis, J. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6079. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13523-1_20

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