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\begin{chapter}{Introduction}
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Reaction Systems (RSs) are a successful computational framework inspired by biological system.
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The underlying idea is that the interactions between biochemical reactions as well as the functioning of single reactions are based on the mechanisms of facilitation and inhibition.
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A Reaction System consists of a set of entities and a set of reactions over them. Each reaction produces some set of entities P (called products) if enabled, meaning if a set R (called reactants) is wholly present and if a set I (called inhibitors) of entities is completely absent.
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The use of inhibitors induces non-monotonic behaviors that are difficult to analyze.
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This work aims to build software that aids in the study and analysis of certain classes of Reaction Systems.
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Entities can also be provided by an external context sequence to simulate \textit{in silico} biological experiment.
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\end{chapter}
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