Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology
A semantic equivalence for Bio-PEPA based on discretisation of continuous values
Theoretical Computer Science
Equivalences for a biological process algebra
Theoretical Computer Science
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Computational modelling of complex biochemical systems has grown in importance over recent years as a tool for supporting biological studies. Consequently, several formal languages have been recently proposed as modelling languages for biology. Among these, process algebras have been proved capable of providing researchers with new hypotheses on the behaviour of biochemical systems.Bio-PEPA is a process algebra recently defined for the modelling and analysis of biochemical systems, which provides modellers with a wide range of analysis techniques: models can be analysed by stochastic simulation, model-checking, and mathematical methods based on ordinary differential equations.In this work, we use Bio-PEPA for modelling the gp130/JAK/STAT signalling pathway, and we use both stochastic simulation and model-checking to analyse several qualitative and quantitative aspects of the system.