title: The Beta Workbench: a computational tool to study the dynamics of biological systems.
abstract: We introduce the Beta Workbench (BWB), a scalable tool built on top of the newly defined BlenX language to model, simulate and analyse biological systems. We show the features and the incremental modelling process supported by the BWB on a running example based on the mitogen-activated kinase pathway. Finally, we provide a comparison with related approaches and some hints for future extensions.
authors.affiliation: ICT International Doctorate School at University of Trento and Microsoft Research, University of Trento, Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Povo, TN, Italy.
authors.forename: Lorenzo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Dematté
authors.forename: Corrado
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Priami
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Romanel
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D008954:Models, Biological; D011381:Programming Languages; D020543:Proteome / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D049490:Systems Biology / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D020543:Proteome