Flocks, herds and schools: A distributed behavioral model
SIGGRAPH '87 Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
Membrane Computing: An Introduction
Membrane Computing: An Introduction
Bridging nonliving and living matter
Artificial Life
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
A Gene Network Model for Developing Cell Lineages
Artificial Life
Theoretical Computer Science
Towards a p systems pseudomonas quorum sensing model
WMC'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Membrane Computing
Outlines of artificial life: a brief history of evolutionary individual based models
EA'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Artificial Evolution
Early systems biology and prebiotic networks
Transactions on Computational Systems Biology I
Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation
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Compartmentalisation is thought to have been a crucial step in the origin of life. To help us bridge the gap between self-assembly processes behind the formation of bio-compartments and metabolic and information bearing processes we refer to DPD and P Systems Simulations. In this paper we outline a new software platform linking a high level abstract computational formalism (P Systems) with a molecular scale model (Dissipative Particle Dynamics) by linking the membranes which delimit the cellular regions within P Systems to self-assembled phospholipid based vesicles in DPD. We test the platform by modelling a passive transport process involving vesicles containing membrane inclusions similar to pore complexes such as ±-hemolysin. In doing so, we illustrate the usefulness of the modelling approach and derive a more realistic parameter set for the P system through the dissipative particle dynamics simulation.