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We give a description of a Petri net-based framework for modelling and analysing biochemical pathways, which unifies the qualitative, stochastic and continuous paradigms. Each perspective adds its contribution to the understanding of the system, thus the three approaches do not compete, but complement each other. We illustrate our approach by applying it to an extended model of the three stage cascade, which forms the core of the ERK signal transduction pathway. Consequently our focus is on transient behaviour analysis. We demonstrate how qualitative descriptions are abstractions over stochastic or continuous descriptions, and show that the stochastic and continuous models approximate each other. A key contribution of the paper consists in a precise definition of biochemically interpreted stochastic Petri nets. Although our framework is based on Petri nets, it can be applied more widely to other formalisms which are used to model and analyse biochemical networks.
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Gilbert, D., Heiner, M., Lehrack, S. (2007). A Unifying Framework for Modelling and Analysing Biochemical Pathways Using Petri Nets. In: Calder, M., Gilmore, S. (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4695. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75140-3_14
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