Applications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology

TitleApplications of Membrane Computing in Systems and Synthetic Biology
Publication TypeEdited Books
Year of Publication2014
AuthorsFrisco, P., Gheorghe M., & Pérez-Jiménez M. J.
Series TitleEmergence, Complexity and Computation
ISBN Number978-3-319-03191-0
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Place PublishedAmsterdam, The Netherlands
Volume7
Number of Pages266
Date Published12/2013
Abstract

Membrane Computing was introduced as a computational paradigm in Natural Computing. The models introduced, called Membrane (or P) Systems, provide a coherent platform to describe and study living cells as computational systems. Membrane Systems have been investigated for their computational aspects and employed to model problems in other fields, like: Computer Science, Linguistics, Biology, Economy, Computer Graphics, Robotics, etc. Their inherent parallelism, heterogeneity and intrinsic versatility allow them to model a broad range of processes and phenomena, being also an efficient means to solve and analyze problems in a novel way.

Membrane Computing has been used to model biological systems, becoming with time a thorough modeling paradigm comparable, in its modeling and predicting capabilities, to more established models in this area. This book is the result of the need to collect, in an organic way, different facets of this paradigm.

The chapters of this book, together with the web pages accompanying them, present different applications of Membrane Systems to Biology. Deterministic, non-deterministic and stochastic systems paired with different algorithms and methodologies show the full potential of this framework.

The book is addressed to researchers interested in applications of discrete biological models and the interplay between Membrane Systems and other approaches to analyze complex systems.

KeywordsComplex Systems - Membrane Computing - Membrane Systems - Natural Computing - Systems and Synthetic Biology
URLhttp://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/book/978-3-319-03190-3
Number of Volumes1