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Target Control of Asynchronous Boolean Networks

Systems and Control 2021-01-05 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

We study the target control of asynchronous Boolean networks, to identify efficacious interventions that can drive the dynamics of a given Boolean network from any initial state to the desired target attractor. Based on the application time, the control can be realised with three types of perturbations, including instantaneous, temporary and permanent perturbations. We develop efficient methods to compute the target control for a given target attractor with three types of perturbations. We compare our methods with the stable motif-based control on a variety of real-life biological networks to evaluate their performance. We show that our methods scale well for large Boolean networks and they are able to identify a rich set of solutions with a small number of perturbations.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00644,
  title  = {Target Control of Asynchronous Boolean Networks},
  author = {Cui Su and Jun Pang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00644},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2006.02304

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