A Spatial Calculus of Wrapped Compartments
Abstract
The Calculus of Wrapped Compartments (CWC) is a recently proposed modelling language for the representation and simulation of biological systems behaviour. Although CWC has no explicit structure modelling a spatial geometry, its compartment labelling feature can be exploited to model various examples of spatial interactions in a natural way. However, specifying large networks of compartments may require a long modelling phase. In this work we present a surface language for CWC that provides basic constructs for modelling spatial interactions. These constructs can be compiled away to obtain a standard CWC model, thus exploiting the existing CWC simulation tool. A case study concerning the modelling of Arbuscular Mychorrizal fungi growth is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1108.3426,
title = {A Spatial Calculus of Wrapped Compartments},
author = {Livio Bioglio and Cristina Calcagno and Mario Coppo and Ferruccio Damiani and Eva Sciacca and Salvatore Spinella and Angelo Troina},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3426},
year = {2011}
}
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Presented at MeCBIC 2011