What Can Formal Methods Bring to Systems Biology?

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Bonzanni;K. Anton Feenstra;Wan Fokkink;Elzbieta Krepska

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1081;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1081;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1081;Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1081

  • Venue:
  • FM '09 Proceedings of the 2nd World Congress on Formal Methods
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This position paper argues that the operational modelling approaches from the formal methods community can be applied fruitfully within the systems biology domain. The results can be complementary to the traditional mathematical descriptive modelling approaches used in systems biology. We discuss one example: a recent Petri net analysis of C. elegans vulval development.