Coloured Petri nets for multilevel, multiscale and multidimensional modelling of biological systems

F Liu, M Heiner, D Gilbert - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Owing to the availability of data of one biological phenomenon at different levels/scales,
modelling of biological systems is moving from single level/scale to multiple levels/scales …

Response to IL-6 trans-and IL-6 classic signalling is determined by the ratio of the IL-6 receptor α to gp130 expression: fusing experimental insights and dynamic …

H Reeh, N Rudolph, U Billing, H Christen… - Cell Communication and …, 2019 - Springer
Background Interleukin-6 is a pleiotropic cytokine with high clinical relevance and an
important mediator of cellular communication, orchestrating both pro-and anti-inflammatory …

Systems biology of IL-6, IL-12 family cytokines

A Dittrich, W Hessenkemper, F Schaper - Cytokine & Growth Factor …, 2015 - Elsevier
Interleukin-6-type cytokines play important roles in the communication between cells of
multicellular organisms. They are involved in the regulation of complex cellular processes …

Fuzzy stochastic petri nets for modeling biological systems with uncertain kinetic parameters

F Liu, M Heiner, M Yang - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs) have been widely used to model randomness which is an
inherent feature of biological systems. However, for many biological systems, some kinetic …

Charlie–an extensible Petri net analysis tool

M Heiner, M Schwarick, JT Wegener - Application and Theory of Petri Nets …, 2015 - Springer
Charlie is an extensible thread-based Java tool for analysing Petri nets. Its built-in
functionalities apply standard analysis techniques of Petri net theory (eg invariants …

Robustness and information transfer within IL-6-induced JAK/STAT signalling

U Billing, T Jetka, L Nortmann, N Wundrack… - Communications …, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular communication via intracellular signalling pathways is crucial. Expression and
activation of signalling proteins is heterogenous between isogenic cells of the same cell …

Colouring space-a coloured framework for spatial modelling in systems biology

D Gilbert, M Heiner, F Liu, N Saunders - … and Theory of Petri Nets and …, 2013 - Springer
In this paper we introduce a technique to encode spatial attributes of dynamic systems using
coloured Petri nets and show how it can be applied to biological systems within the spirit of …

Biomodel engineering with Petri nets

MA Blätke, M Heiner, W Marwan - Algebraic and Discrete Mathematical …, 2015 - Elsevier
We present a unifying Petri net framework comprising the qualitative, stochastic, continuous,
and hybrid paradigm for modeling and analyzing biological reaction networks. By means of …

Integration of genome scale metabolic networks and gene regulation of metabolic enzymes with physiologically based pharmacokinetics

EM Maldonado, V Leoncikas, CP Fisher… - CPT …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The scope of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modeling can be expanded by
assimilation of the mechanistic models of intracellular processes from systems biology field …

Petri nets for modeling and analyzing biochemical reaction networks

F Liu, M Heiner - Approaches in Integrative Bioinformatics: Towards the …, 2014 - Springer
Petri nets have been widely used to model and analyze biochemical reaction networks. This
chapter gives an overview of different types of Petri nets within a unifying Petri net framework …