There s more to a model than code: understanding and formalizing in silico modeling experience

GECCO 2005 - Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

Volumn 2005-January, Issue , 2005, Pages 281-288

  Wiles, Janet ^a,b   Geard, Nic ^a,b   Watson, James ^a,b   Willadsen, Kai ^a,b   Mattick, John ^a,b   Bradley, Daniel ^a,b   Hallinan, Jennifer ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Australian Government Australian Research Council   (Australia)

Author keywords

artificial genomes; complex systems biology; complex systems modeling; complex systems patterns; design patterns; genetic regulatory networks; in silico biology; visualization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; COMPLEX NETWORKS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

ARTIFICIAL GENOMES; COMPLEX SYSTEM BIOLOGY; COMPLEX SYSTEM MODELLING; COMPLEX SYSTEM PATTERN; DESIGN PATTERNS; GENETIC REGULATORY NETWORKS; IN SILICO BIOLOGY; IN-SILICO; IN-SILICO MODELS; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOINFORMATICS;

EID: 84874610099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1102256.1102318     Document Type: Conference Paper

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