Volume 14, Issue 34, July - December, 2020

Simulation study of a mathematical model of molecular communication based on ligand-receptor binding

Indrajit Sharma B

Department of Physics, Assam University, Silchar-788011, Assam, India; E-mail: indraofficial@rediffmail.com

ABSTRACT

Molecular nanomachines are artificial or biological components which are in need to communicate with each other to perform a specific task. For this purpose, we consider two nanomachines called as transmitter nanomachine (TN) and receiver nanomachine (RN). TN transmits molecules in environment and RN receives the molecules through receptors, thus enabling them to communicate each other. The mathematical model which is based on ligand receptor binding is simulated in matlab code. The simulation results show that concentration of molecules, threshold concentration, pulse duration and temperature of environment affect on the channel capacity and thus appropriate values are be selected to achieve for maximum capacity of communication.

Keywords: Nanomachines, Molecular communication, Ligand receptor binding

Drug Discovery, 2020, 14(34), 189-196

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