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Team:KULeuven/Model/Overview
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Introduction
As an introduction to modeling we've made a small presentation for the workout sessions of the first meeting. This presentation handles the following items:
- some definitions
- the difference between white box and black box models with an example
- focus on the role of ODE's
- the need for modeling
- some modeling tools
- and iGEM modeling
This presentation is mainly based on the wiki of ETH Zürich 2006/2007.
Why modeling?
Modeling steps & important notes
- The idea of a pulsgenerator as reset mechanism has been cancelled for the following reasons:
- it takes too long before the proposed system generates a pulse-like event
- the pulse itself is too long
- a constant lactonase production sequence generates enough lactonase to reset the timer
- More information about this problem and the solution can be found on Reset-page.
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis lets you calculate the time-dependent sensitivities of all the species states with respect to species initial conditions and parameter values in the model. A sensitivity analysis is needed e.g. when some of the parameter values are not known. The true value of a parameter is unimportant when the most essential species states are insensitive to the unknown parameter. Only for the sensitive unknown parameters are experiments needed to determine their true values.
In our project we have been able to find hypothetical values for all used parameters, but a sensitivity analyses is nevertheless always valuable to detect critical parameters. These are the parameter values on which our project critically depends and which should be analyzed/characterized as exact as possible.
