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The essential part of amperometric biosensor is an enzyme. It should be selective, i.e., react only with certain substrate. The selectivity of enzyme reduces the set of possible to use enzymes. This paper demonstrates that non selective enzymes (reacting with two substrates) can be used to determine concentrations of two substrates. For this purpose the steady-state current of two double biosensors was measured. The currents were used as input for an artificial neural network to determine concentrations of the substrates. The proposed approach was approved as the relative error of determined concentrations was relatively small. Paper analyses the influence of biosensor parameters to error values. The recommendations to error values minimisation were obtained.

This paper deals with the computational modeling of the pattern formation of luminous bacteria. Two bacterial self-organization models are investigated – Keller-Segel diffusion-advection-reaction type equations and the model with additional oxygen equation. These models were applied for the modeling of fluid cultures of lux-gene engineered Escherichia coli in the cylindrical container as seen from the side in 2 dimensions and in quasi-1 dimension along the top three phase contact line. The spatiotemporal patterns were simulated by using the finite difference technique. By applying these models the influence of the cylindrical container depth on the pattern formation was investigated.