Modelling, dynamic analysis and control of biological networks
- Otero-Muras, Irene
- Antonio Álvarez Alonso Director
- Julio Rodríguez Banga Director
Defence university: Universidade de Vigo
Fecha de defensa: 07 May 2010
- Eduardo Liz Marzán Chair
- Antonio Barreiro Blas Secretary
- Jesús Picó Committee member
- Constantinos Theodoropoulos Committee member
- Eva Balsa-Canto Committee member
Type: Thesis
Abstract
The concept of a reaction network, as a set of interactions with associated rate functions, goes beyond the classical chemical kinetics, and provides a framework for the modelling of many biological phenomena. Compartamental pharmacokinetic models, for example, cand be used to determinate the evolution of substances administered externally to a living organism, and mechanism-based mathematical models are central for understanding biology at the systems level.