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Living organisms are among the most complex phenomena in our world. To describe, model, and simulate living organisms or at least parts thereof, formal descriptions such as Petri nets are needed. As the focus of this book is the use of Petri net theory in biology, the readership will be very diverse. Thus, this chapter is meant to provide a general introduction to biology, especially those areas that will be modeled with the use of Petri net approaches throughout this book. The experienced biochemist might want to skip this chapter, but for computer scientists and readers from similar fields this chapter contains important fundamentals.
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We greatfully acknowledge Dr. Hart Poskar for his valuable comments and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for funding under grant 0315295.
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Liiving, T., Baker, S.M., Junker, B.H. (2011). Biochemical Fundamentals. In: Koch, I., Reisig, W., Schreiber, F. (eds) Modeling in Systems Biology. Computational Biology, vol 16. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-474-6_2
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