Goldbeter1991 - Min Mit Oscil
Citation: A minimal cascade model for the mitotic oscillator involving cyclin and cdc2 kinase
A minimal model for the mitotic oscillator in early amphibian embryos, representing cyclin-driven activation of cdc2 kinase, cdc2-driven activation of cyclin protease, and delayed negative feedback through cyclin degradation.
How this model is classified mathematically and dynamically.
- Model class
- Formalism
- Determinism
- Deterministic
- Time dynamics
- Continuous
- Spatial
- Compartmental
- Multiscale
- No
Organisms, entities and processes this model represents.
- Organisms
- Infectious agents
- Not recorded
- Health conditions
- Not recorded
- Biological processes
- Molecular entities
- Not recorded
- Proteins / genes
The data this model consumes and produces when executed.
Parameters
| Name | Default | Unit | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| VM1 | 3 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
| VM3 | 1 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
| Kc | 0.5 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
| vi | 0.025 | dimensionless | rate of reaction |
| kd | 0.01 | dimensionless | rate of reaction |
| vd | 0.25 | dimensionless | rate of reaction |
| Kd | 0.02 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
| K1 | 0.005 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
| V2 | 1.5 | dimensionless | rate of reaction |
| K2 | 0.005 | dimensionless | kinetic parameter |
Initial conditions
| Name | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclin (C) | 0.01 | concentration unit |
| CDC-2 Kinase (M) | 0.01 | concentration unit |
| Cyclin Protease (X) | 0.01 | concentration unit |
Outputs
| Name | Quantity | Unit | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| species and parameter time series | concentration | model-defined concentration | CSV |
| species trajectories plot | concentration | model-defined concentration | PNG |
Experiment protocol
Uniform time-course simulation from time 0 to 10 with 1000 steps using an ODE solver (KISAO:0000694).
- Timestep
- 0.01 second
- Duration
- 10 second
- Observables
- CMXV1V3VM1VM3Kccellreaction1reaction2reaction3reaction4reaction5reaction6reaction7
Runtime environment, dependencies, and compute requirements.
- Language
- MATLAB
- Environment
- native
The authoritative executable model is SBML in BIOMD0000000003_url.xml. COPASI v4.5 Build 20 was used for integration and simulation; the SED-ML file specifies the reproducible simulation protocol.
Compute requirements
- GPU
- Not required
- Parallelism
- single
Dependencies
- system
- COPASI 4.5 Build 20
Entry points
matlab BIOMD0000000003-matlab.mRun the generated MATLAB representation of the model
octave BIOMD0000000003-octave.mRun the generated Octave-compatible representation of the model
scilab BIOMD0000000003.sciRun the generated Scilab representation of the model
Artifacts stored with this model.
Identifiers and integrity.
- Source
- BIOMD0000000003 · revision 3
- Size
- 188 KB
- SHA-256
- Metadata review
- Approved · eb7b6c55-efae-45b9-9369-668c8a4d7346 · Oct 2026
- Contacts
- Bruce Shapiro · bshapiro@jpl.nasa.govmaintainer · NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Vijayalakshmi Chelliah · viji@ebi.ac.ukmaintainer · EMBL-EBI
- Bruce Shapiro · bshapiro@jpl.nasa.gov
- Related
- Isbiomodels:BIOMD0000000003
- Has taxonncbitaxon:8292
- Is
- External IDs
- biomodels:BIOMD0000000003