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Aliens for Immunology
The book now departs from the viewpoint and language of
immunology and adopts those of a computational modeller.
The writer is an alien who happens to meet an immunologist at
a time when computational immunology was unsuspected in
Italy. He will fi rst tell how this meeting took place. Then, in the
following sections, he will show how the immunological concepts
described in the preceding sections have been translated into a
computational model. Successively, he will illustrate the model
at work, that is, simulations’ results will be commented on to give
a sense of how one can experiment with it. The choice of simple
examples is not casual but is aimed at keeping complexity at
bay. Alien modellers know that the usefulness ...