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The Linear-Noise Approximation and moment-closure approximations for stochastic chemical kinetics

Subcellular Processes 2017-11-27 v2

Abstract

This is a short review of two common approximations in stochastic chemical and biochemical kinetics. It will appear as Chapter 6 in the book "Quantitative Biology: Theory, Computational Methods and Examples of Models" edited by Brian Munsky, Lev Tsimring and Bill Hlavacek (to be published in late 2017/2018 by MIT Press). All chapter references in this article refer to chapters in the aforementioned book.

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@article{arxiv.1711.07383,
  title  = {The Linear-Noise Approximation and moment-closure approximations for stochastic chemical kinetics},
  author = {Abhyudai Singh and Ramon Grima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.07383},
  year   = {2017}
}

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24 pages, 4 figures. To be published as a chapter in the book "Quantitative Biology: Theory, Computational Methods and Examples of Models" edited by Brian Munsky, Lev Tsimring and Bill Hlavack (MIT Press)