System and method for modeling biological systems

5 downloads 31760 Views 2MB Size Report
Jan 9, 2003 - such as a hard drive, temporary memory, such as random access memory, or a ... In yet other embodiments, this analysis can itself be broken ...
US 20030009099A1

(19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. N0.: US 2003/0009099 A1 Lett et al. (54)

(43) Pub. Date:

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODELING

Jan. 9, 2003

Publication Classi?cation

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS (76)

(51)

Int. Cl.7 ..................................................... .. G06F 9/45

Inventors: Gregory Scott Le“, Hightstown, NJ

(52)

US. Cl. ............................................................ .. 600/416

(US); Haoyu Yu, LaWrenceville, NJ (US); J ian Li, Plainsboro, NJ (US) Correspondence Address:

(57)

ABSTRACT

PHYSIOME SCIENCES, INC. 150 COLLEGE ROAD WEST

The present invention relates to a system and method for

PRINCETON, NJ 08540 (Us)

modeling a biological system. More speci?cally, the present invention relates to the use of a component-based architec

(21) Appl' NO‘:

09/976’882

ture for biological modeling software, thereby enhancing the

(22)

Oct‘ 13 2001

extensibility of the softWare and the reusability of the

Filed:



softWare components. The present invention also relates to

Related US Application Data (60)

Provisional application No. 60/304,289, ?led on Jul. 9, 2001.

the use of distributed components for constructing biological modeling softWare capable of being run in a distributed computing environment. Also provided are computer pro gram products for implementing such methods and systems.

> PROCESSOR ’\

MODEL DATA ’\

BIOLOGICAL .-

MODELING

SOFTWARE

MEMORY

COMPUTER ’\

-—-102

-—108

Patent Application Publication

Jan. 9, 2003 Sheet 1 0f 9

US 2003/0009099 A1

FIG. 1A

-~ PROcEssORq

MODEL DATA "\

102

\-108

BIOLOGICAL ,

MODELING

SOFTWARE

MEMORY

/

/

\*~—106

\\_104

COMPUTER ’\

Patent Application Publication

=

Jan. 9, 2003 Sheet 2 0f 9

PROCESSOR =

=

US 2003/0009099 A1

PROCESSOR

Suggest Documents