Modeling Biological Pathways: An Object-Oriented like Methodology Based on Mean Field Analysis

In this paper we propose an object-oriented methodology based on mean field analysis that can be used to describe in an intuitive manner the behavior of systems composed by a large number of interacting objects. For instance, this technique is well suited to study complex biopathways. We apply this approach to model the lac operon gene regulatory mechanism and glycolysis pathway. Numerical results obtained from the analysis of the model are presented.