Abstract
Many biological behaviors require that biochemical species be distributed spatially throughout the cell or across a number of cells. To explain these situations accurately requires a spatial description of the underlying network. At the continuum level, this is usually done using reaction-diffusion equations. Here we demonstrate how this class of models arises. We also show how the framework is used in two popular models proposed to explain spatial patterns during development.
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Iglesias, P.A. (2015). Spatial Description of Biochemical Networks. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5058-9_89
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