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| - | + | As it was mentioned, division function gets an environment as its input. Then it looks at the elements existing in the cells. Those elements that should be doubled before the divisions (like Qrr4 promoter, RNA polymerase, LuxPQ and etc) are doubled and those elements that should be equally divided between new cells (like AI2, LuxU.p, LuxO.p, etc) are divided between cells. For those elements that are divided between new cells, it is not 100% that each new cell gets an equal amount of each one. There is a random generator function which produces a number between 1.90 and 2.10, and this number is used to divide the elements between the cells. Each rule has a label that determines this rule belongs to which cell. When division occurs, rules of the new cells should be labelled. Another challenge is to label all the rules of all the new existing cells. Moreover, we need to determine a time period as life cycle for each generation of the cells. We used the time that Gillespie’s algorithm assigns to the system for this purpose. At this stage, we have added an important aspect of “emergent properties” to our bacteria population by adding division to it. | |
| + | Once again, two meetings this week. One on Thursday with Lindsay project, and the other one on Friday with iGEM. | ||
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