Modular bond-graph modelling and analysis of biomolecular systems.

@article{Gawthrop2016ModularBM,
  title={Modular bond-graph modelling and analysis of biomolecular systems.},
  author={Peter J. Gawthrop and Edmund J. Crampin},
  journal={IET systems biology},
  year={2016},
  volume={10 5},
  pages={
          187-201
        }
}
Bond graphs can be used to build thermodynamically-compliant hierarchical models of biomolecular systems. As bond graphs have been widely used to model, analyse and synthesise engineering systems, this study suggests that they can play the same rôle in the modelling, analysis and synthesis of biomolecular systems. The particular structure of bond graphs arising from biomolecular systems is established and used to elucidate the relation between thermodynamically closed and open systems. Block… 
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