With ever-increasing amounts of metabolomics data produced each year, there is an even greater need to disseminate data and knowledge produced in a standard and reproducible way. To assist with this a general purpose, open source metabolomics repository, MetaboLights, was launched in 2012. To promote a community standard, initially culminated as metabolomics standards initiative (MSI), COordina...

In recent years the concept of emergence has gained much attention as computer systems have started exhibiting properties usually associated with complex systems. Although emergence creates many problems for engineering complex computerized systems by introducing undesired behaviour, it also offers many possibilities for advancements in the area of adaptive self-organizing systems. However, at ...

We describe an algorithm which automates the generation of appropriate shift and coin operators for a discrete time quantum walk, given the adjacency matrix of the graph over which the walk is run. This gives researchers the freedom to numerically investigate any discrete time quantum walk over graphs of a computationally tractable size by greatly reducing the time required to initialise a give...

The editors of these CoSMoS Workshop Proceedings have invited us to describe the two sides of our joint approach to computer simulation of biological systems: the biological side and the computer science side. Irun Cohen, an immunologist, will voice the biological side; David Harel, a computer scientist, will voice the computer science side.

We describe our use of the CoSMoS process to structure an incremental change of a biological simulation. The domain is auxin transport canalisation. An existing simulator is refactored to handle aspects of 2D and 3D space more efficiently, and enhanced to include more realistically-shaped plant cells. The CoSMoS process supports clear separation of concerns, allowing us to concentrate on the bi...

encouraging natural enemies by growing attractive plants is considered an effective method of pest control in organic farming. however, it is important to identify which flowers best attract beneficial insects. in this study, relative attractiveness of 16 species of flowering plants to adult hoverflies was assessed by conducting timed observations of feeding-visit frequencies. the experiments w...