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Membrane Computing as a Framework for Bio-modeling (An Informal Glimpse)

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Algebraic Biology (AB 2007)

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Membrane computing is a well developed branch of natural computing, having as its goal to abstract computing models from the structure and the functioning of the living cell. A recent vivid direction of investigation in this area is devising models for and carrying out applications in biology/medicine and in other disciplines. We briefly present here the basic ideas of membrane computing, its interest for modeling in biology, as well as some applications.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, PO Box 1-764, 014700 Bucureşti, Romania

    Gheorghe Păun

  2. Research Group on Natural Computing, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes s/n, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

    Gheorghe Păun

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Păun, G. (2007). Membrane Computing as a Framework for Bio-modeling (An Informal Glimpse). In: Anai, H., Horimoto, K., Kutsia, T. (eds) Algebraic Biology. AB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4545. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73433-8_3

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