
The tutorial is equally suitable for experimental and theory oriented bio-scientists. Who should read this tutorial? This tutorial addresses scientists who are looking for an easy and intuitive way to translate a biological system into a Petri net model at an arbitrarily chosen level of abstraction with the option of representing time and space-dependent processes. Petri net theory offers the possibility to construct and analyse such models and to represent their structural and dynamic properties by various techniques. To understand biology on its system level, the structural and dynamic properties of regulatory networks in biological systems have to be represented by a model describing the involved species and their interactions. Experimental and computational approaches are combined to investigate biological systems systematically. What is the background of this tutorial? During the last decade, the integrative research area of systems biology has constantly been gaining more importance.
