The Kappa platform for rule-based modeling

Abstract

We present an overview of the Kappa platform, an integrated suite of analysis and visualization techniques for building and interactively exploring rule-based models. The main components of the platform are the Kappa Simulator, the Kappa Static Analyzer and the Kappa Story Extractor. In addition to these components, we describe the Kappa User Interface, which includes a range of interactive visualization tools for rule-based models needed to make sense of the complexity of biological systems. We argue that, in this approach, modeling is akin to programming and can likewise benefit from an integrated development environment. Our platform is a step in this direction.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jun 27, 2018
Source ID
10.1093/bioinformatics/bty272

Entities

People

  • Angus G. Forbes
  • Héctor F Medina-abarca
  • Ioana Cristescu
  • Jean Krivine
  • Jérôme Feret
  • Mutaamba Maasha
  • Pierre Boutillier
  • Walter Fontana
  • Xing Li

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
  • Paris Diderot University
  • University of California, Santa Cruz

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Vision.
  • Software Engineering.