Teaching MCA

[dan kerley]

Hi,
I'm not sure how successful this will be as there don't seem to have been 
many posts for a while!
I would appreciate any suggestions about the best way to explain the basics 
of MCA.

I am a Biochemistry final year undergraduate at the University of Bath and 
will be presenting a seminar (approx 1 hour) to my fellow students on MCA 
and its applications. We have a grounding in enzyme kinetics, but no 
previous knowledge of MCA (well, I personally understand the basics now!).
If possible I would like to minimise the mathematical aspect of MCA whilst 
still explaining what all the formulae mean and how they are applied-no 
matrices please! Instead I will focus on why it is relevant.

Has anyone tried to teach MCA before? what are the applications-drug 
design, fermentation etc? any examples of where it has actually been used 
in industry?

Thanks very much for your help.


Best regards,
Dan Kerley, University of Bath.


PS: I gather the consensus opinion is the format dlny/dlnx is preferable to 
(x/y)(dy/dx) ??


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