Computational Methods in Systems Biology

Inresponsetothecallforpapers39weresubmittedtoCMSB2003. Allthe submittedpaperswerereviewedandtheprogrammecommittee(listedbelow) selected11high-qualitypapersforpublicationinthisvolume. Thecareofthe reviewersandoftheprogrammecommitteemembersinreviewingthepapers wassurelyvaluable. Afurther11paperswereselectedonlyforpresentationat theworkshopinordertostimulatediscussions(anabstractisincluded). AttheworkshopEhudShapiroandMichaelSterngavetwoinvited talks whosetopicsaredescribedinpapersincludedinthisvolume. Theprogramme committeedecidedtoacceptforpublicationinthisvolumealsosomeposition papers that highlight the research trends in this new ?eld of computational methodsinsystemsbiology. Thereasonisthatbecausethisisthe?rstedition ofaworkshopinthisfast-growing?eldalargeviewofpotentialtopicsofresearch wasconsideredextremelyimportant. Rovereto,December2002 CorradoPriami ProgrammeCommitteeofCMSB 2003 CorradoPriami(Chair),UniversityofTrento(Italy), CharlesAu?ray,CNRS,Villejuif(France), CosimaBaldari,Universit`adiSiena(Italy), AlexanderBockmayr,Universit´eHenriPoincar´e(France), LucaCardelli,MicrosoftResearchCambridge(UK), VincentDanos,Universit´eParisVII(France), PierpaoloDegano,Universitad ` iPisa(Italy), Francois ¸ Fages,INRIA,Rocquencourt(France), DrabløsFinn,NorwegianUniversityofScienceandTechnology,Trondheim(N- way), MonikaHeiner,BrandenburgUniversityofTechnologyatCottbus(Germany), InaKoch,UniversityofAppliedSciencesBerlin,(Germany), JohnE. Ladbury,UniversityCollegeLondon(UK), PatrickLincoln,SRI(USA), SatoruMiyano,UniversityofTokyo(Japan), GordonPlotkin,UniversityofEdinburgh(UK), SimonPlyte,PharmaciaCorporation(Italy), AvivRegev,WeizmannInstituteofScience(Israel), MagaliRoux-Rouqui´e,BSMIPasteurInstitute(France), VincentSchachter,HybrigenicsParis(France), MasaruTomita,KeioUniversity(Japan), AdelindeUhrmacher,UniversityofRostock(Germany), AlfonsoValencia,CNB-CSIC,CentroNacionaldeBiotecnologia(Spain), OlafWolkenhauer,UMIST,Manchester(UK) Local Organizing Committee Corrado Priami, Linda Brodo, Michela de Concini, Debora Schuch da Rosa Machado,andtheUniversityofTrentoEventsandMeetingsO?ce. List ofReferees F. Abascal,N. Chabrier,A. Cimatti,M. Curti,M. D. Devignes,S. Gnesi, J. Guijarro,K. Hafez,E. Klipp,C. Laneve,P. LopezRomero,F. Luccio, R. Marangoni,M. Padron,M. C. Pinotti,R. Rizzi,S. Tini. Acknowledgement TheworkshopwassponsoredandpartiallysupportedbytheUniversityofTrento, ComunediRovereto,APT,andtheEUprojectIST-32072-DEGAS. Table of Contents IInvitedPapers CellsasComputation. 1 AmitaiRegevandEhudShapiro FormalModelingofC. elegansDevelopment:AScenario-BasedApproach. 4 Na’aman Kam,David Harel,Hillel Kugler, RamiMarelly, AmirPnueli, E. JaneAlbertHubbard, andMichael J. Stern IIRegularPapers Causal?-CalculusforBiochemicalModelling. 21 Michele Curti,Pierpaolo Degano, andCosima Tatiana Baldari GraphsforCoreMolecularBiology. 34 Vincent Danos and Cosimo Laneve ContributionofComputationalTreeLogic toBiologicalRegulatoryNetworks: ExamplefromPseudomonasAeruginosa. 47 SabinePeresandJean-PaulComet ModelingCellularBehaviorwithHybridAutomata: BisimulationandCollapsing. 57 Marco Antoniotti, Bhubaneswar Mishra, Carla Piazza, Alberto Policriti, andMarta Simeoni MultiscaleModelingofAlternativeSplicingRegulation. 75 Damien Eveillard, Delphine Ropers,Hidde deJong,Christiane Branlant, andAlexanderBockmayr AMethodforEstimatingMetabolicFluxes fromIncompleteIsotopomerInformation. 88 JuhoRousu,AriRantanen,HannuMaaheimo, Esa Pitk¨ anen, KatjaSaarela, andEsko Ukkonen DynamicBayesianNetworkandNonparametricRegression forNonlinearModelingofGeneNetworks fromTimeSeriesGeneExpressionData. 104 SunYongKim, SeiyaImoto, andSatoru Miyano VIII Table ofContents DiscreteEventSimulationforaBetterUnderstanding ofMetaboliteChanneling–ASystemTheoreticApproach. 114 Daniela Degenring,Mathias Rohl, ¨ andAdelinde M. Uhrmacher MathematicalModelingoftheIn?uenceofRKIP ontheERKSignalingPathway. 127 Kwang-HyunCho, Sung-YoungShin, Hyun-WooKim,Olaf Wolkenhauer, Brian McFerran,and WalterKolch AMethodtoIdentifyEssentialEnzymesintheMetabolism: ApplicationtoEscherichia Coli.