Description of kinetic reaction schemes

Class Mechanism represents a kinetic reaction scheme.

CH82: Colquhoun D, Hawkes AG (1982) On the stochastic properties of bursts of single ion channel openings and of clusters of bursts. Phil Trans R Soc Lond B 300, 1-59.

class mechanism.Mechanism(Rates, ncyc=0, fastblk=False, KBlk=None)

Represents a kinetic mechanism / scheme.

Methods

printout
set_eff
set_rateconstants
unit_rates

class mechanism.Rate(rateconstants, State1, State2, name='', eff=None, fixed=False, mr=False, func=<function multiply at 0x412c140>, limits=[])

Describes a rate between two states.

Methods

calc
unit_rate

class mechanism.State(statetype='', name='', conductance=0.0)

Describes a state.

mechanism.multiply(rate, value)

Multiply rate and value. Used as default rate function.

Parameters :

rate : float

Current rate in Q matrix.

value : float

Effector value (typically, concentration or voltage).

Returns :

product : float

Product of rate and value.