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ReviewWiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine

Multiscale modeling for biologists.

Martin Meier-Schellersheim, Iain D C Fraser, Frederick Klauschen

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Review in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.

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47citing papers in PubMed
3.8field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

47 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martin Meier-SchellersheimProgram in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling (PSIIM), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Iain D C FraserProgram in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling (PSIIM), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Frederick KlauschenProgram in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease Modeling (PSIIM), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
National Institutes of Health · USNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · US

Funding

Computational Biology in Systems Immunology and Infectious Disease ModelingZIAAI001076 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MEIER-SCHELLERSHEIM, MARTIN · 2009 to 2025
$25.4M
RNAi Screening in Hematopoietic CellsZIAAI001106 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FRASER, IAIN · 2009 to 2025
$12.4M
Analysis of Innate Immune Signaling NetworksZIAAI001107 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FRASER, IAIN · 2009 to 2025
$11.9M
Mathematical Modeling of Cell Population DynamicsZIAAI001116 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI MEIER-SCHELLERSHEIM, MARTIN · 2009 to 2017
$896k
Quantitative Modeling of Lymphocyte Signaling PathwaysZIAAI001108 · NIAID · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES · PI FRASER, IAIN · 2009 to 2011
$552k
Intramural NIH HHS Z99 AI999999Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001106Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001107Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AI001108
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomedical research frequently involves performing experiments and developing hypotheses that link different scales of biological systems such as, for instance, the scales of intracellular molecular interactions to the scale of cellular behavior and beyond to the behavior of cell populations. Computational modeling efforts that aim at exploring such multiscale systems quantitatively with the help of simulations have to incorporate several different simulation techniques because of the different time and space scales involved. Here, we provide a nontechnical overview of how different scales of experimental research can be combined with the appropriate computational modeling techniques. We also show that current modeling software permits building and simulating multiscale models without having to become involved with the underlying technical details of computational modeling.

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Models, BiologicalSystems BiologyBiomedical ResearchCell CommunicationComputational BiologyComputer SimulationSignal TransductionSoftware

Identifiers

PMID20448808
PMCPMC2862646
OpenAlexW1977943543

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