Machines of Systems Biology 1 Luca Cardelli

Abstract Machines of Systems Biology

Machines of Systems Biology Luca Cardelli Microsoft Research IMT Lucca, 2017-03-29 http://lucacardelli.name The problem of biology is not to stand aghast at the complexity but to conquer it. Sydney Brenner.

Machines of Systems Biology ( Extended

Machines of Systems Biology

Machines of Systems Biology

Artificial Biochemistry Luca Cardelli Microsoft Research

We model chemical and biochemical systems as collectives of interacting stochastic automata, with each automaton representing a molecule that undergoes state transitions. In this artificial biochemistry, automata interact by the equivalent of the law of mass action. We investigate several simple but intriguing automata collectives by stochastic simulation and by ODE analysis.

Biological Systems as Reactive Systems