Team:BCCS-Bristol/Modeling/Population Dynamics
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BCCS-Bristol
iGEM 2009
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Population Dynamics
We are trying to find answers to these problems and questions:
- Bacteria change size.
- Minimum size
- When the bacterium will be at the minimum size?
- What is the growth rate of the bacterium?
- Maximum size
- When the bacterium will be to the maximum size?
- What is the relationship between velocity and size ?
- Relationship between size/time/growth rate
- Minimum size
- Separation.
- When this happen?
- Where the bacterium get placed?
- Maybe following the bacterium motion ?
- Random?
- Fluid dynamics?
- Motion properties after the separation.
- Velocity after separation.
- Are the two bacteria, after replication, the same size?
- Genetic information
- After separation, the two bacteria have the same genetic properties:
- Same replication time distribution?
- Or the new one has a normal/uniform distribution on the normal/uniform distribution of the oldest one?
- After separation, the two bacteria have the same genetic properties:
- Growth
- Rate of growth
- Connection between the rate of duplication and the growth phase.
- Standing phase
- One bacterium can "kill" another one to make its replication?
- If yes which one is going to die?
- One bacterium can "kill" another one to make its replication?
- Environment
- we can try to model a variable condition of the environment:
- 100% Suitable for the replication of the bacteria
- 80% Suitable for the replication of the bacteria
- and so on...
- we can try to model a variable condition of the environment:
BSim Verify Some Concepts
- Collision (Distance calculation)
- Draw an element smoller than bacterium
- Rescale all BSim? (Maybe solution found!
- Increase the lifeTime for each bacterium every timeStep?
- Direction aid?
BSim ToDO List
- CentrePosition
- Class BSimObject
- Method setPosition
- Usage: linearMotion:run:BSimCollisionPhysicsThread
BSim Fixed Problems
- Now we can draw shape using a "double" precision and not "int" precision
Problems
The most popular replication time for an E.Coli is about 20/25 minutes.
Can our simulation take so long time?
How can we simulate on "world" day with 400 bacteria?