Questions tagged [modeling]
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Why this decay term in Anaerobic Digestion Model?
I am reading about the AM2 model, which appears to be a simplified version of the ADM1 model
for modeling anaerobic processes.
The author of this doctoral thesis extended the simpler AM2 model by ...
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Predicting protein folding with Alphafold
I’m trying to figure out how to use Alphafold, which is a biological analysis software for predicting the folding of amino acid sequences. I’ve been trying to follow the directions on the creators’ ...
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What allows diverse ecology to thrive despite forces reducing species diversity?
Ecology and business are a useful model for understanding one another. One species fills a niche until it is outcompeted by another just as one business fills a niche until it is outcompeted by ...
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Can GENESIS simulation software be adapted to other types of tissues?
GENESIS simulation software http://genesis-sim.org/ is designed for neurobiological systems and it is able to inculude in the simulation the different resolution levels - starting from the molecular ...
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Interesting examples of models [closed]
I am studying the general use of models in biology in terms of methodology, applications, usefulness etc, and I would really appreciate any recommendations of some specific examples of models from any ...
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Why Differential equation is not a good way to model chemical reaction networks [closed]
I'm a computer scientist and mostly code and have worked with Boolean models of cell level molecule transfer. Now i'm reading about the Biological pathways and modelling chemical reaction networks / ...
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Success of computer simulations in biology, new discoveries [closed]
In an interview with Tim Hunt, Hunt makes the following comment:
There are some people nowadays who think you can sort of model everything on a computer. But I'm not one of those. I don't think ...
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Example of well understood/modeled biological mechanism
I am working on modeling psychiatric disorders, where multivariate time series data - which I think is necessary to do any interesting modeling - is only broadly available recently, due to the ...
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Identity and similarity for Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) of proteins
I have to do homology modeling for a transmembrane protein (sodium channel) and right now I am in the process of aligning the sequences of the template with the homologous proteins I have found. I am ...
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Is it possible to mathematically model the growth of plants?
Are there mathematical equations that represent/model the growth of plants?
For example, if I have a Bellis perennis and I want to know how it develops in a given environment (Sun is shining, defined ...
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