Molecule parameters used in the gene-protein network dynamics.

Each parameter value is derived from the chromosome, either directly through the parameter element, as most of the table entries, or using a Hamming distance function, as in wij. The parameters above are encoded for each gene/protein in the chromosome as a “parameter block” and govern the gene and its derived protein dynamics in the gene-protein network. The model separates the activation dynamics, controlling the ability of the gene-protein to affect other gene-proteins, and the production dynamics that control the protein's concentration, by having different slopes β•, thresholds θ•, and time constants τ• : βa, θa, τa for each gene/protein to control the dynamics of the activation and θp, βp, τp to control the dynamics of the protein production.