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Our initial ideas on how and what to model can be found at Modelling/Brainstorm.
The raw model
The following variables play an important role in our system (these can be concentrations of substances, the density of the cell, etc.):
- [Hg2+] (if we want to accumulate mercury)
- ???
The variables above can be related to each other through the following "reactions" and/or equations:
- Example of a reaction: Extra_Cellular_Cu -> Intra_Cellular_Cu, with the reaction rate 0.34*(Extra_Cellular_Cu-Intra_Cellular_Cu).
- From REFERENCE: Extra Cellular Hg2+ -> Intra Cellular Hg2+, described by the differential equation <math>\frac{\partial[M]}{X \partial t}=\frac{V_m[M]}{K_m+[M]}</math>. Question: What is [M]? It looks like it should be the concentration outside the cell (in mg/L), but that doesn't make sense, as everything on the right-hand side is positive, suggesting that the concentration outside the cell is growing...
Any constants used above are defined here:
- ???
