Life sciences through mathematical models

Authored by Daniela Calvetti, Erkki Somersalo

Date Published: 2015

DOI: 10.1007/s12210-015-0422-5

Sponsors: United States National Science Foundation (NSF) Simons Foundation

Platforms: No platforms listed

Model Documentation: Other Narrative Mathematical description

Model Code URLs: Model code not found

Abstract

This article discusses some of the basic principles of mathematical modeling in life sciences, and in particular the special features that make the modeling task fundamentally different from the traditional reductive modeling. The intricacies of the modeling in living systems are elucidated by simple and tractable examples that underline the problems of parametric models and the issue of non-scalability of the models.
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Dynamics