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Feedback Control in Systems Biology
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Feedback Control in Systems Biology

by Carlo Cosentino, Declan Bates
October 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
296 pages
9h 39m
English
CRC Press
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0 5 10 15 20
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
x
FIGURE 3.1: Intersections of x/(1 + x
2
) (solid line) and r(1 x/q) (dashed
lines) for q = 20 and r = 0.15, 0.4, 0.6.
Obviously, x = 0 is an equilibrium point, but so are all the solutions to the
equation
r
1
x
q
=
x
1 + x
2
(3.15)
These solutions can be easily visualised by plotting both sides of Eq. (3.15),
as shown in Fig. 3.1: the intersections co rrespond to the equilibrium points
of system (3.14). Note how both the location and the number of equilibrium
points change for different values of the parameter r.
3.3 Linearisation around equilibrium points
The study of the behaviour
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