Simon Gamache-Poirier , Alexia Souvane , William Leclerc , Catherine Villeneuve , Simon V. Hardy
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Abstract
A common depiction for biological signaling networks is the influence graph in which the activation and inhibition effects between molecular species are shown with vertices and arcs connecting them. Another formalism for reaction-based models is the Petri nets which has a graphical representation and a mathematical notation that enables structural analysis and quantitative simulation. In this paper, we present an algorithm based on Petri nets topological features for the transformation of the computational model of a biological signaling network into an annotated influence graph. We also show the transformation of the Petri nets model of the beta-adrenergic receptor activating the PKA-MAPK signaling network into its representation as an influence graph.
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BioSystems encourages experimental, computational, and theoretical articles that link biology, evolutionary thinking, and the information processing sciences. The link areas form a circle that encompasses the fundamental nature of biological information processing, computational modeling of complex biological systems, evolutionary models of computation, the application of biological principles to the design of novel computing systems, and the use of biomolecular materials to synthesize artificial systems that capture essential principles of natural biological information processing.