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Team:Aberdeen Scotland/modeling
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University of Aberdeen - Pico Plumber
Introduction
Our modeling team consists of six undergraduates, four of whom study maths and physics, one studying physics and one chemical engineering. Due to the complex nature of the project, we need good predictions from mathematical simulations to help predict and understand our system. We are mainly programing our simulations in C and Matlab but we have also used Matlab's Sim-Biology toolbox for some sensitivity analysis.
The internal dynamics described deterministically and stochastically with the help of Ordinary Differential Equations. We also used SimBiology to model our Pico Plumber.
Modeling the chemotaxis of e. coli and how they move towards a food source.
In our system, quorum sensing is a behaviour which we wish to exploit, to do this it is essential to model the system to guarantee it responds to inputs correctly.
