@article {516, title = {Simulation of P systems with active membranes on CUDA}, journal = {Briefings in Bioinformatics}, volume = {11}, year = {2010}, note = {Parallel and Ubiquitous methods and tools in Systems Biology Impact Factor of 9.283}, month = {03/2010}, pages = {313-322}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {P systems or Membrane Systems provide a high-level computational modelling framework that combines the structure and dynamic aspects of biological systems in a relevant and understandable way. They are inherently parallel and non-deterministic computing devices. In this article, we discuss the motivation, design principles and key of the implementation of a simulator for the class of recognizer P systems with active membranes running on a (GPU). We compare our parallel simulator for GPUs to the simulator developed for a single central processing unit (CPU), showing that GPUs are better suited than CPUs to simulate P systems due to their highly parallel nature.}, keywords = {CUDA, GPU, Membrane computing, Natural computing, P systems, parallel computing}, issn = {1477-4054}, doi = {10.1093/bib/bbp064}, url = {http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/bbp064v1}, author = {Jos{\'e} M. Cecilia and Jos{\'e} M. Garc{\'\i}a and Gin{\'e}s D. Guerrero and Miguel A. Mart{\'\i}nez-del-Amor and Ignacio P{\'e}rez-Hurtado and Mario J. P{\'e}rez-Jim{\'e}nez} }