Mathematical analysis of enzymic reaction systems using optimization principles

Abstract

Mathematical modelling of metabolic networks is nowadays an important subject of theoretical biology. Most studies in this field concern (a) the development of models for the simulation of stationary and time dependent states of metabolic pathways; (b) the analysis of complex dynamic phenomena such as transitions between multiple stationary states, oscillations and even chaotic behaviour; and (c) the quantitative characterization of control properties of metabolic pathways.