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The authors introduce a graphical notation for representing general dynamical systems and demonstrate its use in three commonly occurring systems in the biosciences. They also indicate how the notation is used to facilitate the acquisition and transfer by students of skills in constructing equations from a verbal description of a system.
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Mandel, J.J., Palfreyman, N.M. (2004). A Pen-and-Paper Notation for Teaching Biosciences. In: López, J.A., Benfenati, E., Dubitzky, W. (eds) Knowledge Exploration in Life Science Informatics. KELSI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30478-4_1
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