A multi-scaled approach to artificial life simulation with P Systems and Dissipative Particle Dynamics

GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 249-256

  Smaldon, James ^a   Blakes, Jonathan ^a   Krasnogor, Natalio ^a   Lancet, Doran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial life; Dissipative Particle Dynamics; P Systems; Synthetic biology; Systems biology

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL LIFE; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY;

DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS; DISSIPATIVE PARTICLE DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SCALE MODELS; P SYSTEMS; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; SELF ASSEMBLY PROCESS; SOFTWARE PLATFORMS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 57349200305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1389095.1389134     Document Type: Conference Paper

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