Research Group on Natural Computing

In recent years, the increasing importance of the
computational systems biology is leading to an impressive growth
of the knowledge of several real-life phenomena. In this framework,
membrane computing is an emergent branch within natural
computing that has been succesfully used to model biological
phenomena. The study of these phenomena usually requires the
execution of virtual experiments using mechanisms of simulation,
implying the development of ad-hoc tools to simulate. However,
the advance of the research is demanding general solutions
to avoid the necessity of custom software developments for
each matter of study, when there are some common problems
to resolve. MeCoSim (Membrane Computing Simulator) is a
first step in this direction providing the users a customizable
application to generate custom simulators based on membrane
computing by simply writing a configuration file.