English

Fluctuations in Gene Regulatory Networks as Gaussian Colored Noise

Molecular Networks 2015-05-14 v2 Biological Physics

Abstract

The study of fluctuations in gene regulatory networks is extended to the case of Gaussian colored noise. Firstly, the solution of the corresponding Langevin equation with colored noise is expressed in terms of an Ito integral. Then, two important lemmas concerning the variance of an Ito integral and the covariance of two Ito integrals are shown. Based on the lemmas, we give the general formulae for the variances and covariance of molecular concentrations for a regulatory network near a stable equilibrium explicitly. Two examples, the gene auto-regulatory network and the toggle switch, are presented in details. In general, it is found that the finite correlation time of noise reduces the fluctuations and enhances the correlation between the fluctuations of the molecular components.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0910.4468,
  title  = {Fluctuations in Gene Regulatory Networks as Gaussian Colored Noise},
  author = {Ming-Chang Huang and Jinn-Wen Wu and Yu-Pin Luo and Karen G. Petrosyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4468},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

10 pages, 4 figures