Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 22, 2004
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Bioinformatics 20(4) © Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved.
A multi-algorithm, multi-timescale method for cell simulation
Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, 252-8520, Japan
Received on April 29, 2003
; revised on July 14, 2003
; accepted on August 19, 2003
Advance Access Publication January 22, 2004
Motivation: Many important problems in cell biology require the dense nonlinear interactions between functional modules to be considered. The importance of computer simulation in understanding cellular processes is now widely accepted, and a variety of simulation algorithms useful for studying certain subsystems have been designed. Many of these are already widely used, and a large number of models constructed on these existing formalisms are available. A significant computational challenge is how we can integrate such sub-cellular models running on different types of algorithms to construct higher order models.
Results: A modular, object-oriented simulation meta-algorithm based on a discrete-event scheduler and Hermite polynomial interpolation has been developed and implemented. It is shown that this new method can efficiently handle many components driven by different algorithms and different timescales. The utility of this simulation framework is demonstrated further with a ‘composite’ heat-shock response model that combines the Gillespie–Gibson stochastic algorithm and deterministic differential equations. Dramatic improvements in performance were obtained without significant accuracy drawbacks. A multi-timescale demonstration of coupled harmonic oscillators is also shown.
Availability: An implementation of the method is available as part of E-Cell Simulation Environment Version 3 downloadable from http://www.e-cell.org/software. Benchmark models are included in the package, and also available upon request.
Supplementary information: Complete lists of reactions and parameters of the heat-shock model, and more results are available at http://www.e-cell.org/bioinfo/takahashi03-1-supp.pdf
Contact: shafi{at}e-cell.org
* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
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