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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

large-scale models, computational biology, biomedical

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering and Technology

Department

Chemical Engineering

Abstract

Advances in biomedical research have lead to an increase of experimental data to be interpreted in the context of reaction pathways, molecular transport, and population dynamics. Kinetic modeling is one way employed to interpret this data and is used in the pharmaceutical industry in developing clinical trials for new medications [1]. One collection of kinetic models is built on the System Biology Markup Language (SBML). Many of these models have detailed reaction metabolic pathways that describe biological systems, including cause and effect relationships in the human body. While simulations of these biological systems have been successfully applied for many years, the alignment to available measurements continues to be a challenge. The best available solution techniques continue to limit the size of models and measurements to small and medium size problems.

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