Stochastic modeling of gene expression, protein modification, and polymerization
arXiv:1510.00675
Abstract
Many fundamental cellular processes involve small numbers of molecules. When numbers are small, fluctuations dominate, and stochastic models, which account for these fluctuations, are required. In this chapter, we describe minimal stochastic models of three fundamental cellular processes: gene expression, protein modification, and polymerization. We introduce key analytic tools for solving each model, including the generating function, eigenfunction expansion, and operator methods, and we discuss how these tools are extended to more complicated models. These analytic tools provide an elegant, efficient, and often insightful alternative to stochastic simulation.
10 pages, 2 figures. To appear in the q-bio Methods Textbook
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