New Text Book
Enzyme Kinetics for Systems Biology is a modern text book for undergraduate classes or as a reference text in systems and synthetic biology. The text covers all the main topics in enzyme kinetics including chapters on the kinetics of gene expression and generalized rate laws. Available now at the special price of only $39.95. Purchase at Amazon Special student and bulk order prices available at blog.analogmachine.org
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New 17 million-digit prime number
Recent news announced the discovery of a new Mersenne prime. What was interest was the response I saw on some of the boards that where reporting this news, for example: “but can someone explain how digging up mersene prime numbers … Continue reading
Building an Analog Integrator
Something I’ve been wanting to do for a while was is to build a simple analog integrator. Here is my first attempt. I bread-boarded the circuit first to get it working then made it more permanent and stable by soldering … Continue reading
Self-Publishing: A Personal Experience
As some of you may know, a year ago I published my book ‘Enzyme Kinetics for Systems Biology’ and I am about to release the second edition. Next year the hope is to publish another title. Self-publishing my own book … Continue reading
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LaTeX and Chemistry
I recent had the need to draw some chemical equation in a LaTeX document. In the past I’ve used ChemDraw and loaded the image into my document as a png file. Last time I used ChemDraw was on my old … Continue reading
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Electronic Gene Circuit
The figure below shows a single unit from the Microryza gene network circuit project. The circuit models a transcription factor that acts as a repressor. The output from the circuit is the level of protein which can be fed into … Continue reading
A mini-supercomputer for the rest of us
I recently contributed to the kickstarter project, Parallela which I would like to selfishly mention here. This is an interesting project that wants to develop highly cost effective small parallel machines. For example their smallest multi-process machine will cost $99 … Continue reading
Misconceptions in Metabolism II
A week ago I wrote about some misconceptions in metabolism that arose from a trip to a systems biology workshop in Holland. This week I discovered that Nature is perpetrating similar misconceptions in their News and Views section. I came … Continue reading
Misconceptions in Metabolism
I’m currently at the ISGSB meeting (International Study group for Systems Biology – formally BTK) in Holland. This is a group that values both theoretical analysis and experimentation in biochemical network analysis. Its an interesting group of people that I have literally … Continue reading
Ludicrous as it may sound
I was reminded the other day of an interesting quote from a 2000 FEBS paper which starts with: “How highly would one rate an economic analysis of a factory that ignored the consumer demand for its products? Ludicrous as it … Continue reading
Why are Systems Biologists so bad at Computer Modeling?
The title of this blog is meant to be a little brazen and eye catching but I decided to write it after having been on a variety of government grant panels over the years where I am always shocked at the … Continue reading