A novel method to verify multilevel computational models of biological systems using multiscale spatio-temporal meta model checking

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Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Ovidiu, Pârvu ^a   David, Gilbert ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERITIS; MULTISCALE SPATIOTEMPORAL META MODEL CHECKING METHOD; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UTERUS CONTRACTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; INFLAMMATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMODYNAMICS; INFLAMMATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RATS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84969540507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154847     Document Type: Article

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