Biochemical pathways simulation

In this short note we review deterministic simulation of biochemical pathways, i.e. networks of biochemical reactions obeying the law of mass action. It is meant as a basis for the MATLAB code, written by the author, which permits easy input and simulation of general biochemical networks. This work was carried out for the European Project `CardioWorkBench'.

💡 Research Summary

The paper presents a comprehensive framework for deterministic simulation of biochemical pathways based on the law of mass action, together with a MATLAB implementation that enables rapid model construction, simulation, and analysis. After a brief motivation highlighting the challenges of manually deriving ordinary differential equations (ODEs) for complex reaction networks, the authors formalize the mathematical foundation: each reaction follows a mass‑action rate law v_j = k_j ∏_i