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In Vitro Assay for Studying the Aggregation of Tau Protein and Drug Screening
Published on: November 20, 2018
Michaelis-Menten speeds up tau-leaping under a wide range of conditions
1Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. sheng@cs.ucsb.edu
Abstract:
This paper examines the benefits of Michaelis-Menten model reduction techniques in stochastic tau-leaping simulations. Results show that although the conditions for the validity of the reductions for tau-leaping remain the same as those for the stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA), the reductions result in a substantial speed-up for tau-leaping under a different range of conditions than they do for SSA. The reason of this discrepancy is that the time steps for SSA and for tau-leaping are determined by different properties of system dynamics.
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