Computational Methods in Systems Biology

Invited Papers.- Cells as Computation.- Formal Modeling of C. elegans Development: A Scenario-Based Approach.- Regular Papers.- Causal ?-Calculus for Biochemical Modelling.- Graphs for Core Molecular Biology.- Contribution of Computational Tree Logic to Biological Regulatory Networks: Example from Pseudomonas Aeruginosa.- Modeling Cellular Behavior with Hybrid Automata: Bisimulation and Collapsing.- Multiscale Modeling of Alternative Splicing Regulation.- A Method for Estimating Metabolic Fluxes from Incomplete Isotopomer Information.- Dynamic Bayesian Network and Nonparametric Regression for Nonlinear Modeling of Gene Networks from Time Series Gene Expression Data.- Discrete Event Simulation for a Better Understanding of Metabolite Channeling - A System Theoretic Approach.- Mathematical Modeling of the Influence of RKIP on the ERK Signaling Pathway.- A Method to Identify Essential Enzymes in the Metabolism: Application to Escherichia Coli.- Symbolic Model Checking of Biochemical Networks.- Presentation Abstracts.- Coupled Oscillator Models for a Set of Communicating Cells.- Representing and Simulating Protein Functional Domains in Signal Transduction Using Maude.- A Core Modeling Language for the Working Molecular Biologist (Abstract).- Integrating Simulation Packages via Systems Biology Mark-Up Language.- Recreating Biopathway Databases towards Simulation.- How to Synthesize an Optimized Genetic ?-Switching System? A System-Theoretic Approach Based on SQP.- Simulation Sudy of the TNF? Mediated NF-?B Signaling Pathway.- Detection and Analysis of Unexpected State Components in Biological Systems.- Model Validation of Biological Pathways Using Petri Nets - Demonstrated for Apoptosis.- An Overview of Data Models for the Analysis of Biochemical Pathways.- DiscreteEvent Systems and Client-Server Model for Signaling Mechanisms.- Position Papers.- Enhanced Operational Semantics in Systems Biology.- Issues in Computational Methods for Functional Genomics and Systems Biology.- Integrating Biological Process Modelling with Gene Expression Data and Ontologies for Functional Genomics (Position Paper).- Computer Simulation of Protocells.- How to Solve Semantic Puzzles of Systems Biology.- Evolution as Design Engineer.- Inference, Modeling and Simulation of Gene Networks.