Multiscale modelling in immunology: a review

A Cappuccio, P Tieri, F Castiglione - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
One of the greatest challenges in biomedicine is to get a unified view of observations made
from the molecular up to the organism scale. Towards this goal, multiscale models have …

Multiscale modeling: Concepts, technologies, and use cases in immunology

V Abedi, R Hontecillas, A Carbo, C Philipson… - Computational …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract In today's Big Data era, computing tools and techniques help revolutionize
immunological research in a meaningful way that is also shifting paradigm from top-down or …

The multiscale systems immunology project: software for cell-based immunological simulation

F Mitha, TA Lucas, F Feng, TB Kepler… - Source code for biology …, 2008 - Springer
Background Computer simulations are of increasing importance in modeling biological
phenomena. Their purpose is to predict behavior and guide future experiments. The aim of …

Mathematical modeling of the immune system in homeostasis, infection and disease

G Bocharov, V Volpert, B Ludewig… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The immune system is a dynamic and multi-level biological system that protects host
organisms against invading pathogens and tumor development, and plays an active role in …

Simulation modelling for immunologists

A Handel, NL La Gruta, PG Thomas - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
The immune system is inordinately complex with many interacting components determining
overall outcomes. Mathematical and computational modelling provides a useful way in …

A perspective on the role of computational models in immunology

AK Chakraborty - Annual review of immunology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
This is an exciting time for immunology because the future promises to be replete with
exciting new discoveries that can be translated to improve health and treat disease in novel …

Mechanistic simulations of inflammation: current state and future prospects

Y Vodovotz, G Constantine, J Rubin, M Csete… - Mathematical …, 2009 - Elsevier
Inflammation is a normal, robust physiological process. It can also be viewed as a complex
system that senses and attempts to resolve homeostatic perturbations initiated from within …

The development of a fully-integrated immune response model (FIRM) simulator of the immune response through integration of multiple subset models

S Palsson, TP Hickling, EL Bradshaw-Pierce… - BMC systems …, 2013 - Springer
Background The complexity and multiscale nature of the mammalian immune response
provides an excellent test bed for the potential of mathematical modeling and simulation to …

Applications of mechanistic modelling to clinical and experimental immunology: an emerging technology to accelerate immunotherapeutic discovery and development

LV Brown, EA Gaffney, J Wagg… - Clinical & Experimental …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The application of in silico modelling is beginning to emerge as a key methodology to
advance our understanding of mechanisms of disease pathophysiology and related drug …

Modeling biology spanning different scales: an open challenge

F Castiglione, F Pappalardo, C Bianca… - BioMed research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
It is coming nowadays more clear that in order to obtain a unified description of the different
mechanisms governing the behavior and causality relations among the various parts of a …