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A Web Tool for Generating High Quality Machine-readable Biological Pathways
Published on: February 8, 2017
The markup is the model: reasoning about systems biology models in the Semantic Web era
1School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, UK. dbk@manchester.ac.uk
Abstract:
Metabolic control analysis, co-invented by Reinhart Heinrich, is a formalism for the analysis of biochemical networks, and is a highly important intellectual forerunner of modern systems biology. Exchanging ideas and exchanging models are part of the international activities of science and scientists, and the Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) allows one to perform the latter with great facility. Encoding such models in SBML allows their distributed analysis using loosely coupled workflows, and with the advent of the Internet the various software modules that one might use to analyze biochemical models can reside on entirely different computers and even on different continents. Optimization is at the core of many scientific and biotechnological activities, and Reinhart made many major contributions in this area, stimulating our own activities in the use of the methods of evolutionary computing for optimization.
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