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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2012 Sep 28;29:1–8. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2012.09.008

Figure 3. A mosaic of model forms.

Figure 3

As biological processes build upon one another from the molecular to the cellular, from organs to organ systems, the degree of resolution necessary to support a realistic representation of the biology will be optimally supported by different mathematical formalisms. These will range from molecular dynamics models (MD), which capture chemical binding with atomic resolution, to agent-based models (ABM) where mathematical automata can be used to represent populations of cells (e.g. embryogenesis) or even populations of individuals (epidemiological simulations).