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Predicting genetic perturbations enables the identification of potentially crucial genes prior to wet-lab experiments, significantly improving overall experimental efficiency. Since genes are the foundation of cellular life, building gene…

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We consider two mathematical dynamical models of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and obtain results on robust synchronization on these dynamical models based on the existing theoretical results in the coupled cell network formalism. We also…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Manuela Aguiar , Ana Dias , Haibo Ruan

Phenotype transition takes place in many biological processes such as differentiation, and understanding how a cell reprograms its global gene expression profile is a problem of rate theories. A cell phenotype transition accompanies with…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-09 Weikang Wang , Dante Poe , Ke Ni , Jianhua Xing

Understanding the genetic basis of phenotypic plasticity is crucial for predicting and managing climate change effects on wild plants and crops. Here, we combined crop modeling and quantitative genetics to study the genetic control of oil…

Gene regulatory networks (GRN) are being studied with increasingly precise quantitative tools and can provide a testing ground for ideas regarding the emergence and evolution of complex biological networks. We analyze the global statistical…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2010-12-14 Berkin Malkoc , Duygu Balcan , Ayse Erzan

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) are complex systems in which many genes regulate mutually to adapt the cell state to environmental conditions. In addition to function, the GRNs possess several kinds of robustness. This robustness means that…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-05 Shintaro Nagata , Macoto Kikuchi

Search for possible relationships between phylogeny and ontogeny is one of the most important issues in the field of evolutionary developmental biology. By representing developmental dynamics of spatially located cells with gene expression…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2015-04-01 Takahiro Kohsokabe , Kunihiko Kaneko

Morphogenesis is the biological process that causes the emergence and changes of patterns (tissues and organs) in living organisms. It is a robust, self-organising mechanism, governed by Genetic Regulatory Networks (GRN), that hasn't been…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-17 Yuriria Cortes-Poza , J. Rogelio Perez-Buendia

Emerging evidence suggests that the introns and intergenic sequences of the genomes of higher eukaryotes (the ``junk'' DNA) codes for a vast, RNA-based, genetic regulatory network. It is believed that this network is responsible for the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Emmanuel Tannenbaum

Phenotypical variability in the absence of genetic variation often reflects complex energetic landscapes associated with underlying gene regulatory networks (GRNs). In this view, different phenotypes are associated with alternative states…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-27 M. Ali Al-Radhawi , Domitilla Del Vecchio , Eduardo D. Sontag

Discrete gene regulatory networks (GRNs) play a vital role in the study of robustness and modularity. A common method of evaluating the robustness of GRNs is to measure their ability to regulate a set of perturbed gene activation patterns…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Zhenyue Qin , Tom Gedeon , Bob McKay

Bacterial cells are sensitive to a range of external signals used to learn the environment. These incoming external signals are then processed using a Gene Regulatory Network (GRN), exhibiting similarities to modern computing algorithms. An…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-12 Samitha Somathilaka , Daniel P. Martins , Xu Li , Yusong Li , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam

Unraveling the complexities of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is crucial for understanding cellular processes and disease mechanisms. Traditional computational methods often struggle with the dynamic nature of these networks. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hakan T. Otal , Abdulhamit Subasi , Furkan Kurt , M. Abdullah Canbaz , Yasin Uzun

Modeling gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is an important topic in systems biology. Although there has been much work focusing on various specific systems, the generic behavior of GRNs with continuous variables is still elusive. In…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2014-04-23 Zhiyuan Li , Simone Bianco , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chao Tang

Genes communicate with each other through different regulatory effects, which lead to the emergence of complex structures in cells, and such structures are expected to be different for normal and cancerous cells. To study breast cancer…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-13 Abbas Karimi Rizi , Mina Zamani , Amirhossein Shirazi , G. Reza Jafari , János Kertész

Over the past twenty years, artificial Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) have shown their capacity to solve real-world problems in various domains such as agent control, signal processing and artificial life experiments. They have also…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dennis G Wilson , Kyle Harrington , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Hervé Luga

Determining mechanistic models of gene regulation, especially underlying phenotypic variation, is a central goal of both mathematical biology and modern evolutionary biology. However, several challenges, involving both common…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-04 Cody E. FitzGerald , Shelley Reich , Victor Agaba , Arjun Mathur , Michael S. Werner , Niall M. Mangan

Understanding gene regulation is a fundamental step towards understanding of how cells function and respond to environmental cues and perturbations. An important step in this direction is to infer the transcription factor-gene regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-25 Yijie Wang , Dong-Yeon Cho , Hangnoh Lee , Justin Fear , Brian Oliver , Teresa M Przytycka

Although accumulation of molecular damage is suggested to be an important molecular mechanism of aging, a quantitative link between the dynamics of damage accumulation and mortality of species has so far remained elusive. To address this…

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