Prinz, Heino.

Numerical Methods for the Life Scientist Binding and Enzyme Kinetics Calculated with GNU Octave and MATLAB / [electronic resource] : by Heino Prinz. - IX, 149p. 61 illus., 52 illus. in color. online resource.

Preparing the computer -- Binding equilibria -- Binding kinetics -- Least squares fit to experimental data -- Multi-parameter fits -- Comparing the two different approaches.  .

Enzyme kinetics, binding kinetics and pharmacological dose-response curves are currently analyzed by a few standard methods. Some of these, like Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics, use plausible approximations, others, like Hill equations for dose-response curves, are outdated. Calculating realistic reaction schemes requires numerical mathematical routines which usually are not covered in the curricula of life science. This textbook will give a step-by-step introduction to numerical solutions of non-linear and differential equations. It will be accompanied with a set of programs to calculate any reaction scheme on any personal computer. Typical examples from analytical biochemistry and pharmacology can be used as versatile templates. When a reaction scheme is applied for data fitting, the resulting parameters may not be unique. Correlation of parameters will be discussed and simplification strategies will be offered.

9783642208201

10.1007/978-3-642-20820-1 doi


Life sciences.
Bioinformatics.
Life Sciences.
Bioinformatics.
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.
Mathematical and Computational Biology.

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