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In this work the formalism of metabolic P systems is employed as a basis of a new computational framework for modeling biological networks. The proposed software is a virtual laboratory, called MetaPlab, which supports the synthesis of metabolic P systems by means of an extensible plugin-based architecture. The Java implementation of the software is outlined and a specific plugin at work is described to highlight the internal functioning of the whole architecture.
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Castellini, A., Manca, V. (2009). MetaPlab: A Computational Framework for Metabolic P Systems. In: Corne, D.W., Frisco, P., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95885-7_12
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