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Revision as of 15:03, 27 September 2008

Magrathea a prototype application that demonstrates the use of coordinated agent modeling.

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Here are some sample movies from the Magrathe project.

rules.1.png
About this image
This is a simple demonstration of the use of rules by coordinators.

This example shows a substrate (molecule 1) that undergoes a state-change (phosphorylation) upon interaction with a kinase (molecule 2). The state change is visualized by a colour change.

rules.2.png
About this image
This demonstration shows a somewhat more complex use of rules to demonstrate the process of lateral signalling.

In this example, a ligand molecule binds to a membrane-bound receptor. On binding, the receptor changes state (becomes activated) as indicated by a colour change. The receptor in this new state also gains the ability to bind to and activate other membrane bound receptors. The overall effect is that a single ligand-receptor binding event initiates a lateral cascade of receptor activation events.

rules.3.png
About this image
This demonstration shows a set of rules that control translocation into and out of a spherical compartment. A number of ligand molecules (blue) bind to a surface receptor (black) on the orange compartment’s surface. The coordinator handling this ligand receptor interaction encodes a rule that translocates the ligand into the orange compartment and changes the state of the ligand such that it is capable of binding to a second receptor (grey) that is also a surface component of the orange compartment. This state change is associated with a colour change for the ligand molecule (blue to yellow). A second coordinator handles the interaction between the ligand and the second receptor and encodes a rule that translocates the ligand out of the orange compartment. Once the ligand is outside the compartment, its state (yellow) prevents it from assembling with the importing receptor (black) for a second time.