Biomolecular System Energetics
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Efficient energy transduction is one driver of evolution; and thus understanding biomolecular energy transduction is crucial to understanding living organisms. As an energy-orientated modelling methodology, bond graphs provide a useful approach to describing and modelling the efficiency of living systems. This paper gives some new results on the efficiency of metabolism based on bond graph models of the key metabolic processes: glycolysis.
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