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The members of the dry lab are simulating the different components of the full system. Three main components can be identified:
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<li>The difussion of the chemoattractant through the medium. </li>
<li>The difussion of the chemoattractant through the medium. </li>
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<li>The circuits and devices for the chemoattractant generation within the bacteria. </li>
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<p>For the first two points, we have developed a simulation using Java. The explanation of the simulation can be found in the Chemotaxis link below. Moreover, you can <b>download the bacterial crowding simulation</b> <a href="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/3/3f/BacterialCrowdingSimulation.zip">here</a>
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The basic equations for the diffusion of the chemoattractant in the medium are the <a src="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fick%27s_laws_of_diffusion" target="_blank">Fick laws of diffusion</a>, which govern the variation of the concentration of a substance within a medium.
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The flux <b>J</b> (that is, the amount of substance that flows through a given surface per unit of time mol m<sup>-2</sup>s<sup>-1</sup>) is given by:
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The circuits and transduction signals inside the cell is simulated by using Matlab's Simbiology Toolbox. The model and results can be found in the Signaling link below.
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                  <a href="https://2010.igem.org/Team:UPO-Sevilla/Modeling/Chemotaxis"> <img class="subBanner" src="https://static.igem.org/mediawiki/2010/2/24/BacterialCrowdingChemotaxis.png" alt="Chemotaxis" /></a>
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where &phi; is the concentration (mol m<sup>-3</sup>) in a given point. <i>D</i> is a constant called the diffusion coefficient, and that depends on the medium .
 
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In order to simulate the diffusion, we define the environment and discretize it in very small cells. Each cell determines a given volume <i>V</i>, and has a surface <b>S</b>. At a given time instant, the cell has an amount of substance <i>c</i> (and then a concentration <i>c</i>\<i>V</i>).
 
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If the cells and time step &Delta;<i>t</i> are small, we can consider that the gradient of concentration can be approximated though the differences in concentration between a cell <i>i</i> and 4 (or 8) neighbors <i>j</i>. Thus:
 
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The main actuator of <i>E. Coli</i> is a flagellar motor that can rotate clock and counterclockwise. Through a set of transmembrane receptors proteins, <i>E. Coli</i> is able to detect chemoattractants. Moreover, this detection influences the motion of the flagellar motor [Topp and Gallivan, 2007].
 
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where <b>x</b> is the position of the bacteria and <b>v</b> is the velocity. This (vector) velocity is randomly sampled from a normal distribution of zero mean and a certain covariance matrix that models the potential .
 
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The bacteria will move for a time &Delta; <i>t</i><sub>rm</sub> with constant velocity <b>v</b>(<i>t</i>). At next time instant, a new velocity is (randomly selected) selected 
 
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<small>[Topp and Gallivan, 2007] Topp, S. and Gallivan, J. (2007). Guiding Bacteria with Small Molecules and RNA. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 129:6807–6811.</small>
 
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Models

The members of the dry lab are simulating the different components of the full system. Three main components can be identified:
  1. The difussion of the chemoattractant through the medium.
  2. The motion of the bacterias through the medium due to the gradient on the chemoattractant concentration.
  3. The circuits and devices for the chemoattractant generation within the bacteria.

For the first two points, we have developed a simulation using Java. The explanation of the simulation can be found in the Chemotaxis link below. Moreover, you can download the bacterial crowding simulation here

The circuits and transduction signals inside the cell is simulated by using Matlab's Simbiology Toolbox. The model and results can be found in the Signaling link below.

Chemotaxis Signaling


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