Interesting question when you are more a biologist than a mathematician (too many complicated equations!!!) And as most of your team members were biologists/biochemists, we tried to explain the model easily for everyone.

Definitions:

A model is a symbolic representation of an object’s or phenomenon’s aspects in the real world.

“All models are false. Some are useful.” Georges Box

Modeling is the process that allows the development of a model. It’s taking into account:

• The phenomenon to represent
• A specific formal system (equation, diagram..)
• Objectives (what we want to do with the model)
• Data (for variables) and knowledge (relation between variables) available or accessible by experimentation or observation

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BEn on en a pas !