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Characterization of Complex Systems Using the Design of Experiments Approach: Transient Protein Expression in Tobacco as a Case Study
Published on: January 31, 2014
Commentary: model building, quantitative testing, and model comparison
1Dept. of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Abstract:
The final goal is to create mathematical models that are based on our current knowledge of the underlying physiology and that explain all of the experimental data available. To do this, we suggest a consideration of several potential mathematical structures in the formulation of models and the formal comparison of these various structures with other models in the literature. However, when making these comparisons, one must pay careful attention to the systems being modeled and the data sets chosen to represent those systems.
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