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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Henriette Kleijn, Professor Maciej KoutnyORCiD
In membrane systems, biochemical reactions taking place in the compartments of a cell are abstracted to evolution rules that specify which and how many objects are consumed and produced. The recently proposed reaction systems also investigate processes carried by biochemical reactions, but the resulting computational model is remarkably different. A key difference is that in reaction systems, biochemical reactions are modeled using a qualitative rather than a quantitative approach. In this paper, we introduce so-called set membrane systems, a variant of membrane systems with qualitative evolution rules inspired by reaction systems. We then relate set membrane systems to Petri nets which leads to a new class of Petri nets: set-nets with localities. This Petri net model provides a faithful match with the operational semantics of set membrane systems.
Author(s): Kleijn J, Koutny M
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 2011
Pages: 18
Print publication date: 01/11/2011
Source Publication Date: November 2011
Report Number: 1287
Institution: School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
