OFFl Models: Novel Schema for Dynamical Modeling of Biological Systems.

ABSTRACT: Flow diagrams are a common tool used to help build and interpret models of dynamical systems, often in biological contexts such as consumer-resource models and similar compartmental models. Typically, their usage is intuitive and informal. Here, we present a formalized version of flow diagrams as a kind of weighted directed graph which follow a strict grammar, which translate into a system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) by a single unambiguous rule, and which have an equivalent representation as a relational database. (We abbreviate this schema of "ODEs and formalized flow diagrams" as OFFL.) Drawing a diagram within this strict grammar encourages a mental discipline on the part of the modeler in which all dynamical processes of a system are thought of as interactions between dy

SUBMITTER: Ogbunugafor CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4896432 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature