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Introduction:Cellular-levelsimulation
CS/CME/Biophys/BMI371March6,2017
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From Inner Life of the Cell | Protein Packing, XVIVO and Biovisions @ Harvard
• Theinteriorofthecelliscrowded,andallthemoleculesjiggleabout.• Notethatlotsofmolecules(e.g.,water)aren’tevenshowninthismovie.
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Molecules jiggle about because other molecules keep bumping into them
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Diffusion
• This “jiggling about” by lots of molecules leads to diffusion
• Individual molecules follow a random walk, due to collisions with surrounding molecules
• Diffusion = many random walks by many molecules – Substance goes from region of high concentration to
region of lower concentration
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Reaction-diffusion simulation
• A common way to model how molecules move within the cell involves reaction-diffusion simulation
• Basic rules: – Molecules move around by diffusion – When two molecules come close together, they have
some probability of reacting to combine or modify one another
• Several implementation strategies: – Particle-based – Continuum models – In some (limited) cases, one can solve the partial
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Particle-based approach
• Represent molecules by particles, and track the motion of each one
• Example software: ReaDDy (topic of one paper)
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Continuum approach
• Divide space into finite “voxels” • Instead of tracking positions of molecules, track
concentrations of each type of molecule in each voxel
• At each time step, update concentrations based on reactions of molecules within a voxel, and diffusion between neighboring voxels based on concentration differences
• Example software: Simmune (topic of one paper), Virtual Cell (used by another paper, which also presents some analytical solutions) 7
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Background information
• Review paper (Models at the single cell level, 2010) – http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wsbm.49/full
• Slides from CS/CME/Biophys/BMI 279: – http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs279/lectures/
lecture10.pdf
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