Simulation of error-prone biological systems

  • Authors:
  • Anastasia Pagnoni;Andrea Visconti

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Milan, Italy;University of Milan, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WISICT '04 Proceedings of the winter international synposium on Information and communication technologies
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The paper presents a methodology for the design of simulation models of biological systems that take the occurrence of random errors into account. We suggest: (1) representing the causal structure and prescribed behavior of the system to be simulated by means of Petri net N, (2) extending net N so as to allow for algebraic error detection via Hamming codes over a finite field, (3) simulating net N in a way that introduces unexpected states (random marking errors) into the process, and (4) algebraically detecting such "wrong" states and identifying their erroneous components.