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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages 401-406Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7799(01)01740-1
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR13186] Funding Source: Medline
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The newly emerging field of computational cell biology requires software tools that address the needs of abroad community of scientists. Cell biological processes are controlled by an interacting set of biochemical and electrophysiological events that are distributed within complex cellular structures. Computational modeling is familiar to researchers in fields such as molecular structure, neurobiology and metabolic pathway engineering, and is rapidly emerging in the area of gene expression. Although some of these established modeling approaches can be adapted to address problems of interest to cell biologists, relatively few software development efforts have been directed at the field as a whole. The Virtual Cell is a computational environment designed for cell biologists as well as for mathematical biologists and bioengineers. It serves to aid the construction of cell biological models and the generation of simulations from them. The system enables the formulation of both compartmental and spatial models, the latter with either idealized or experimentally derived geometries of one, two or three dimensions.
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