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9.7

Exercises for Chap. 9

Task 9.1

Name and describe typical behaviors (ordered, random, and chaotic) of biological systems.

Task 9.2

Describe basic elements of biological systems.

Task 9.3

Name and describe various omics techniques.

Task 9.4

What is meant by emergence? Make this clear with an example.

Task 9.5

Draw a simple network consisting of a feedback or feedforward loop.

Task 9.6

Describe erythropoietin (EPO) production: (1) first qualitatively (set up control loop), (2)

then identify possible quantitative relationships.

Task 9.7

Consider water: what different system states do you know?

Task 9.8

Cardiac hypertrophy simulation: which different system states could be distinguished for

cardiac force stimulation if an increase in cardiac force can occur via a sympathetic and a

hypertrophic stimulus?

Useful Links

Ensembl

https://www.ensembl.org/Homo_sapiens/Info/Index

UCSC

https://genome.ucsc.edu/

OMIM

https://www.omim.org/

RNAfold

https://rna.tbi.univie.ac.at/cgi-­bin/RNAWebSuite/RNAfold.cgi

RNAAnalyzer

https://rnaanalyzer.bioapps.biozentrum.uni-­wuerzburg.de/

catRAPID

https://s.tartaglialab.com/page/catrapid_group

NPInter

https://www.bioinfo.org/NPInter/

miRanda

https://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do

TargetScan

https://www.targetscan.org/vert_71/

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9.7  Exercises for Chap. 9