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Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterium that exploits quorum sensing communication to synchronize individuals in a colony and this leads to an increase in the effectiveness of its virulence. In this paper we derived a mechanistic P systems model to describe the behavior of a single bacterium and we discuss a possible approach, based on an evolutionary algorithm, to tune its parameters that will allow a quantitative simulation of the system.
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Bianco, L., Pescini, D., Siepmann, P., Krasnogor, N., Romero-Campero, F.J., Gheorghe, M. (2006). Towards a P Systems Pseudomonas Quorum Sensing Model. In: Hoogeboom, H.J., Păun, G., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A. (eds) Membrane Computing. WMC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11963516_13
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