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In this chapter we make use of all the material studied so far to construct a few (simple but informative) models for gene expression. As before, we are interested in obtaining useful information regarding both the dynamical and thermodynamical aspects of this phenomenon.
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Santillán, M. (2014). Gene Expression and Regulation. In: Chemical Kinetics, Stochastic Processes, and Irreversible Thermodynamics. Lecture Notes on Mathematical Modelling in the Life Sciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06689-9_8
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