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This paper presents binders and operators, in the process calculi tradition, to reason about biological interactions.
Special binders are added to wrap a process just as membranes enclose some living matter and hence to mimick biological interfaces. A few operators are then added to the pi-calculus kernel to describe the dynamics of those interfaces.
This work has been partially supported by the FIRB project “Modelli formali per Sistemi Biochimici”.
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Priami, C., Quaglia, P. (2005). Beta Binders for Biological Interactions. In: Danos, V., Schachter, V. (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25974-9_3
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