Bookedited by Edgar Wingender.
Summary: It was suggested some years ago that Petri nets might be well suited to modeling metabolic networks, overcoming some of the limitations encountered by the use of systems employing ODEs (ordinary differential equations). Much work has been done since then which confirms this and demonstrates the usefulness of this concept for systems biology. Petri net technology is not only intuitively understood by scientists trained in the life sciences, it also has a robust mathematical foundation and provides the required degree of flexibility. As a result it appears to be a very promising approach to mode.
Contents:
Title page; Preface; Contents; Petri Nets and the Simulation of Metabolic Networks; Quantitative Modeling of Biochemical Networks; Topological Analysis of Metabolic Networks Based on Petri Net Theory; Quantitative Petri Net Model of Gene Regulated Metabolic Networks in the Cell; Petri Nets for Steady State Analysis of Metabolic Systems; Biopathways Representation and Simulation on Hybrid Functional Petri Net; Constructing Biological Pathway Models with Hybrid Functional Petri Nets.