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ArticlePolymers2017

Exploring the Limits of the Geometric Copolymerization Model.

Martin S Engler, Kerstin Scheubert, Ulrich S Schubert, Sebastian Böcker

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Article in Polymers, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Martin S EnglerLife Sciences Group, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Science Park 123, 1089XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands. martin.engler@cwi.nl.
Kerstin ScheubertChair of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany. kerstin.scheubert@uni-jena.de.
Ulrich S SchubertLaboratory of Organic and Macromolecular Chemistry (IOMC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Humboldtstr. 10, 07743 Jena, Germany. ulrich.schubert@uni-jena.de.
Sebastian BöckerChair of Bioinformatics, Friedrich Schiller University, Ernst-Abbe-Platz 2, 07743 Jena, Germany. sebastian.boecker@uni-jena.de.

Funding

Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur 12038-514
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The geometric copolymerization model is a recently introduced statistical Markov chain model. Here, we investigate its practicality. First, several approaches to identify the optimal model parameters from observed copolymer fingerprints are evaluated using Monte Carlo simulated data. Directly optimizing the parameters is robust against noise but has impractically long running times. A compromise between robustness and running time is found by exploiting the relationship between monomer concentrations calculated by ordinary differential equations and the geometric model. Second, we investigate the applicability of the model to copolymerizations beyond living polymerization and show that the model is useful for copolymerizations involving termination and depropagation reactions.

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copolymer fingerprintcopolymer kineticsMarkov modelMonte Carlo simulations

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PMID30970781
PMCPMC6431939

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