Smart VCell
Model Explorer

A comprehensive collection of references, papers, and data sources that power our biological modeling platform.

Research Papers

Leveraging public AI tools to explore systems biology resources in mathematical modeling
Meera Kannan, Gabrielle Bridgewater, Ming Zhang & Michael L. Blinov

NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, 2025

DOI: 10.1038/s41540-025-00496-z

Virtual cell modeling and simulation software
I.I. Moraru, J.C. Schaff, B.M. Slepchenko, M.L. Blinov, F. Morgan, A. Lakshminarayana, F. Gao, Y. Li, and L.M. Loew

IET Systems Biology, 2008

DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb:20080102

SBGN Bricks Ontology as a tool to describe recurring concepts in molecular networks
Adrien Rougny , Vasundra Touré , John Albanese , Dagmar Waltemath , Denis Shirshov , Anatoly Sorokin , Gary D Bader , Michael L Blinov , Alexander Mazein

Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2021

DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbab049

Attention Is All You Need
Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan N. Gomez, Lukasz Kaiser, Illia Polosukhin

neurips, 2017

DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762

bnglViz: online visualization of rule-based models
Noah Liguori-Bills, Michael L Blinov

Bioinformatics, Volume 40, Issue 6, June 2024, btae351, 2024

DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae351

Data Sources & Other Tools

VCell Database

The Virtual Cell Database repository stores all the models created using the Virtual Cell software.

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BioNetGenLanguage (BNGL) code visualizer

BioNetGen is software designed for modular, structure-based modeling of biochemical reaction networks.

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GitHub Repositories

vcell-demo

Backend and API for the VCell Model Explorer demo.

Technologies: Python, Streamlit, Ollama, Groq, VCell API

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vcell-front-demo

Frontend application for the VCell Model Explorer.

Technologies: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, ShadCN

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