title: Computer support for physiological cell modelling using an ontology on cell physiology.
abstract: The development of electrophysiological whole cell models to support the understanding of biological mechanisms is increasing rapidly. Due to the complexity of biological systems, comprehensive cell models, which are composed of many imported sub-models of functional elements, can get quite complicated as well, making computer modification difficult. Here, we propose a computer support to enhance structural changes of cell models, employing the markup languages CellML and our original PMSML (physiological model structure markup language), in addition to a new ontology for cell physiological modelling. In particular, a method to make references from CellML files to the ontology and a method to assist manipulation of model structures using markup languages together with the ontology are reported. Using these methods three software utilities, including a graphical model editor, are implemented. Experimental results proved that these methods are effective for the modification of electrophysiological models.
authors.affiliation: ASTEM Res. Inst. of Kyoto. simayosi@astem.or.jp
authors.forename: Shimayoshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takao
authors.forename: Komurasaki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kazuhiro
authors.forename: Amano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Akira
authors.forename: Iwashita
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Takeshi
authors.forename: Kanazawa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Masanori
authors.forename: Matsuda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tetsuya
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D002468:Cell Physiological Phenomena; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003201:Computers; D008954:Models, Biological; D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods; D014584:User-Computer Interface