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: