@inproceedings{8a821fc0d3ab439097f423817556ed88,
title = "The pathways of complement",
abstract = "The natural world has developed very effective methods for dealing with pathogens that are invading an organism. By taking inspiration from the in-built, innate, response this paper develops a new algorithm that mimics activation path of the Alternative Pathway of Complement. The Alternative Pathway is triggered by cell surfaces. If the surfaces display safe characteristics then a strong suppression process prevents activation. In the case of non-safe surfaces a positive feedback loop rapidly identifies the location marking it for removal by phagocytosis.",
keywords = "sialic acid, alternative pathway, matching function, attentive monitoring, polyanionic molecule",
author = "Aitken, {Jonathan M.} and Tim Clarke and Timmis, {Jonathan I.}",
year = "2008",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-85072-4_32",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540850716",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "364--375",
booktitle = "Artificial Immune Systems - 7th International Conference, ICARIS 2008, Proceedings",
address = "Switzerland",
note = "7th International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2008 ; Conference date: 10-08-2008 Through 13-08-2008",
}