A SYSTEM FOR VISUAL MODELLING OF GENE NETWORKS ’ STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION

Motivation: In cells, tissues, organs and organisms, a huge amount of different processes that are controlled genetically take place simultaneously, including molecular genetical, biochemical, and physiological ones. For studying regulatory mechanisms of these processes and the ways of their preordered modification, it is necessary to develop effective computer methods for description, reconstruction, and modelling of complex gene networks. Results: A system for visual modelling of structural and functional gene network’s organization was developed. This system is compiled of: (1) a gene network editor realized in the environment Windows NT/2000/XP, (2) an application server, which provides logic operation in the system’s functioning and connection to the database server, (3) a database server. Development of the application server and database server was made in the Oracle9i environment.