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transsys: A Generic Formalism for Modelling Regulatory Networks in Morphogenesis

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 2001)

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The formal language transsys is introduced as a tool for comprehensively representing regulatory gene networks in a way that makes them accessible to ALife modelling. As a first application, Linden-mayer systems are enhanced by integration with transsys. The resulting formalism, called L—transsys, is used to implement the ABC model of flower morphogenesis. This transsys ABC model is extensible and allows dynamical modelling on the molecular and on the morphological level.

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  1. Institut für Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Seelandstraße 1a, 23569, Lübeck, Germany

    Jan T. Kim

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  1. Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University, 74601, Opava, Czech Republic

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Kim, J.T. (2001). transsys: A Generic Formalism for Modelling Regulatory Networks in Morphogenesis. In: Kelemen, J., Sosík, P. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2159. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44811-X_26

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