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Petri Nets in Systems Biology: Transition Invariants, Maximal Common Transition Sets, Transition Clusters, Mauritius Maps, and MonaLisa

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Carl Adam Petri: Ideas, Personality, Impact

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Carl Adam Petri’s personality, curiosity and ideas inspired the author’s team in their work on modeling biochemical systems. Petri nets now represent a well-established approach in the systems biology community.

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  1. Molecular Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics and Cluster of Excellence ‘Macromolecular Complexes’, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Koch, I. (2019). Petri Nets in Systems Biology: Transition Invariants, Maximal Common Transition Sets, Transition Clusters, Mauritius Maps, and MonaLisa. In: Reisig, W., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Carl Adam Petri: Ideas, Personality, Impact. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96154-5_26

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