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A CoD-based stationary control policy for intervening in large gene regulatory networks.

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BACKGROUND:One of the most important goals of the mathematical modeling of gene regulatory networks is to alter their behavior toward desirable phenotypes. Therapeutic techniques are derived for intervention in terms of stationary control policies. In large networks, it becomes computationally burdensome to derive an optimal control policy. To overcome this problem, greedy intervention approaches based on the concept of the Mean First Passage Time or the steady-state probability mass of the network states were previously proposed. Another possible approach is to use reduction mappings to compress the network and develop control policies on its reduced version. However, such mappings lead to loss of information and require an induction step when designing the control policy for the original network. RESULTS:In this paper, we propose a novel solution, CoD-CP, for designing intervention policies for large Boolean networks. The new method utilizes the Coefficient of Determination (CoD) and the Steady-State Distribution (SSD) of the model. The main advantage of CoD-CP in comparison with the previously proposed methods is that it does not require any compression of the original model, and thus can be directly designed on large networks. The simulation studies on small synthetic networks shows that CoD-CP performs comparable to previously proposed greedy policies that were induced from the compressed versions of the networks. Furthermore, on a large 17-gene gastrointestinal cancer network, CoD-CP outperforms other two available greedy techniques, which is precisely the kind of case for which CoD-CP has been developed. Finally, our experiments show that CoD-CP is robust with respect to the attractor structure of the model. CONCLUSIONS:The newly proposed CoD-CP provides an attractive alternative for intervening large networks where other available greedy methods require size reduction on the network and an extra induction step before designing a control policy.

journal_name

BMC Bioinformatics

journal_title

BMC bioinformatics

authors

Ghaffari N,Ivanov I,Qian X,Dougherty ER

doi

10.1186/1471-2105-12-S10-S10

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-10-18 00:00:00

pages

S10

issn

1471-2105

pii

1471-2105-12-S10-S10

journal_volume

12 Suppl 10

pub_type

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A CoD-based stationary control policy for intervening in large gene regulatory networks.