P systems applications to systems biology

摘要

A number of computational paradigms have emerged, either inspired by or to account for, the multifaceted complex phenomena present in biological processes. One of the most recent and successful of these paradigms is the so called membrane computing, formally called P systems, introduced by P?un (2000) (see P?un, 2002 for a modern introduction). Although young, membrane computing is a vigorous research field that is having an impact on a variety of disciplines. Indeed, P systems research is growing fast: in 2003 the Thompson Institute for Scientific Information characterised the initial paper (P?un, 2000) as “fast breaking” and the domain as “emergent research front in computer science”. Since 2000 several volumes and a large number of papers have appeared reporting on the scientific progress viz-a-viz various computational structural aspects of membrane computing.