2011/08/17 by Federico Buti, Massimo Callisto De Donato, Buti, Federico +7
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · #Emerging Technologies (cs.ET) #FOS: Biological sciences #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL) #Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM) #cs.ET #cs.FL #q-bio.QM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1108.3434
Presented at MeCBIC 2011
arxiv created 2011/08/17 · arxiv updated 2011/08/18
Nowadays, multiscale modelling is recognized as the most suitable way to study biological processes. Indeed, almost every phenomenon in nature exhibits a multiscale behaviour, i.e., it is the outcome of interactions that occur at different spatial and temporal scales. Although several ways to provide "multilayer" models have been proposed, only Complex Automata naturally embed spatial information and realize the multiscale approach with well-established inter-scale integration schemas. Recently, such approach has been restated in terms of Spatial P systems - a variant of P systems with a more geometric concept of space. In this work we discuss how mobile membranes, a variant of membrane systems inspired by the biological movements of endocytosis and exocytosis, can be efficaciously exploited to define a uniform multiscale coupling scheme relying only on the features of the formalism itself.