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In this work the authors propose the use of a high-level Petri net formalism for modeling developmental processes at the cell level, taking explicitly into account the role of epigenetic regulation.
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Bardini, R., Benso, A., Di Carlo, S., Politano, G., Savino, A. (2016). Using Nets-Within-Nets for Modeling Differentiating Cells in the Epigenetic Landscape. In: Ortuño, F., Rojas, I. (eds) Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering. IWBBIO 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9656. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31744-1_28
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