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Here you can find the data sets for Physical Models of Living Systems, including those used in A Student’s Guide to Python for Physical Modeling.

The data sets are available in a GitHub repository:

https://github.com/dr-kinder/pmls-data

You can also download the entire collection of data sets in a single zipped file.

data_sets.zip

Clicking on this link will take you to a Google Drive site where you can download a file called data_sets.zip. To save this file to your computer, click on the Download icon at the top of the page. This is a horizontal bar with a downward-pointing arrow above it.

If you click on data_sets.zip you may be able to see the folders it contains and look inside these. However, you will not be able to download any files this way. You must download the entire archive by clicking on the Download icon.

The zipped file contains a folder called PMLSdata which contains 17 data sets, each in a separate folder. The same data is often available in multiple formats. See the file README.txt in each folder for a description of the data set.

You can also obtain the data sets and a more detailed description of each from the Student Resources Web page of Physical Models of Living Systems.

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