Application of fractional derivative on non-linear biochemical reaction models

Abstract

Systems of ordinary differential equations play an important role in analyzing the dynamics for real world situations such as cell signaling pathways, population growth, enzymatic inhibitor reactions, and ecological models. Although, using differential equations have a great advantage to understand the dynamical behavior for such systems but most of the biological models have memory or sometimes called after effects. Such effects in the systems are often neglected. The idea of fractional-order differential equations gives a great role in understanding and identifying these effects on the model dynamics. In this paper, we review the basic ideas of fractional differential equations and their applications on non-linear biochemical reaction models. We apply this idea to a non-linear model of enzyme inhibitor reactions. The suggested method provides a good step forwards to understand the model dynamics in complex enzymatic reactions. We use a numerical approach to calculate some computational simulation of the model for different initial conditions and parameters.