Title :
Domain specific languages for cellular interactions
Author :
Harrison, William L. ; Harrison, Robert W.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Missouri-Columbia Univ., Columbia, MO, USA
Abstract :
Bioinformatics is the application of computer science techniques to problems in biology, and this paper explores one such application with great potential: the modeling of life cycles of autonomous, intercommunicating cellular systems using domain-specific programming languages (DSLs). We illustrate this approach for the simple photo-synthetic bacterium R. Sphaeroides with a DSL called CellSys embedded in the programming language Haskell.
Keywords :
biology computing; cellular biophysics; microorganisms; programming languages; CellSys; Haskell programming language; R. Sphaeroides; bioinformatics; biology; cellular interactions; computer science technique; domain-specific programming language; intercommunicating cellular system; photosynthetic bacterium; Application software; Bioinformatics; Biological system modeling; Cells (biology); Computational biology; Computer languages; Computer science; DSL; Domain specific languages; Systems biology;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2004. IEMBS '04. 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8439-3
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2004.1403855
