Membrane Systems and Their Application to Systems Biology

  • Authors:
  • Giancarlo Mauri

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milano-Bicocca,

  • Venue:
  • CiE '07 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Computability in Europe: Computation and Logic in the Real World
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

P-systems, or membrane systems [1], were introduced by George Păun as a class of unconventional computing devices of distributed, parallel and nondeterministic type, inspired by the compartmental structure and the functioning of living cells. The basic model consists of a membrane structure, described by a finite string of well matching parentheses, and graphically represented as regions on the plane, hierarchically embedded within an external region. Each membrane contains a multiset of objects(representing chemical substances) that evolve according to given evolution rules(representing reactions).