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We report on the specification and analysis of VICE, a hypothetical cell with a genome as basic as possible. We used an enhanced version of the π-calculus and a prototype running it to study the behaviour of VICE. The results of our experimentation in silico confirm that our virtual cell “survives” in an optimal environment and shows a behaviour similar to that of real prokaryotes.
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Chiarugi, D., Curti, M., Degano, P., Marangoni, R. (2005). VICE: A VIrtual CEll. In: Danos, V., Schachter, V. (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3082. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25974-9_16
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