The SYMBIONT project: symbolic methods for biological networks

François Boulier (1) , François Fages (2) , Ovidiu Radulescu (3) , Satya Swarup Samal (4) , Andreas Schuppert (5) , Werner M. Seiler (6) , Thomas Sturm (7) , Sebastian Walcher (4) , Andreas Weber (8)

1 CRIStAL - Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189
2 Lifeware - Computational systems biology and optimization
3 Département de Mathématiques [Montpellier]
4 RWTH - Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University
5 Bayer Technology Services [Leverkusen]
6 Universität Kassel [Kassel]
7 MPII - Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik
8 Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

The international interdisciplinary SYMBIONT project ranges from mathematics via computer science to systems biology, with a balanced team of researchers from those fields. At the present stage the project has a clear focus on fundamental research on mathematical methods, and prototypes in software. Results are systematically benchmarked against models from computational biology databases. We summarize the motivation and aims for the project, and report on existing results by the consortium and first activities. The project website can be found at www.symbiont-project.org.

Domaines: Bio-informatique [q-bio.QM]

François Boulier, François Fages, Ovidiu Radulescu, Satya Swarup Samal, Andreas Schuppert, et al.. The SYMBIONT project: symbolic methods for biological networks. ACM Communications in Computer Algebra, 2018, 52 (3), pp.67-70. ⟨10.1145/3313880.3313885⟩. ⟨hal-02061018⟩