Symbolic model checking of biochemical networks

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Abstract

Model checking is an automatic method for deciding if a circuit or a program, expressed as a concurrent transition system, satisfies a set of properties expressed in a temporal logic such as CTL. In this paper we argue that symbolic model checking is feasible in systems biology and that it shows some advantages over simulation for querying and validating formal models of biological processes. We report our experiments on using the symbolic model checker NuSMV and the constraint-based model checker DMC, for the modeling and querying of two biological processes: a qualitative model of the mammalian cell cycle control after Kohn’s diagrams, and a quantitative model of gene expression regulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
EditorsCorrado Priami
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages149-162
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)3540006052, 9783540006053
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2003
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2003 - Rovereto, Italy
Duration: 24 Feb 200326 Feb 2003

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2602
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference1st International Workshop on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2003
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRovereto
Period24/02/0326/02/03

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