9.53 Homework Assignments

Assignment 1: Enzyme kinetics  Due Feb. 24

To do this assignment, you will need the following readings:

• Heinrich and Schuster, pp. 16-24  This was distributed in class.
• Heinrich and Schuster, pp. 160-2.
• Fell, pp. 72-5.
• M. O. Magnasco.  Chemical kinetics is Turing universal.   Phys. Rev. Lett. 78:1190-3 (1997).

Assignment 2: The repressilator Due Mar. 30

To do this assignment, you may want to look at sample XPP code:

• Toggle switch
• Activator-inhibitor system
• Cubic nullcline oscillator
• Irreversible unimolecular reaction (stochastic)
• Autocatalytic switch (stochastic)

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