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Stochastic kinetic models of genetic expression are able to describe protein fluctuations. A comparative study of the canonical and a feedback model is given here by using stochastic simulation methods. The feedback model is skeleton model…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-09-06 Raoul R. Wadhwa , Laszlo Zalanyi , Judit Szente , Laszlo Negyessy , Peter Erdi

In biophysics, the search for analytical solutions of stochastic models of cellular processes is often a challenging task. In recent work on models of gene expression, it was shown that a mapping based on partitioning of Poisson arrivals…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Hugo Tschirhart , Thierry Platini

Many of the existing stochastic models of gene expression contain the first-order decay reaction term that may describe active protein degradation or dilution. If the model variable is interpreted as the molecule number, and not…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Jakub Jędrak , Maciej Kwiatkowski , Anna Ochab-Marcinek

Stochastic oscillations in individual cells are usually characterized by a non-monotonic power spectrum with an oscillatory autocorrelation function. Here we develop an analytical approach of stochastic oscillations in a minimal hybrid…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-08 Chen Jia , Hong Qian , Michael Q. Zhang

Gene expression and its regulation is a nonequilibrium stochastic process. Different molecules are involved in several biochemical steps in this process with low copies. It is observed that the stochasticity in biochemical processes is…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-05-22 Rajesh Karmakar

This paper analyzes, in the context of a prokaryotic cell, the stochastic variability of the number of proteins when there is a control of gene expression by an autoregulation scheme. The goal of this work is to estimate the efficiency of…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2016-07-15 Renaud Dessalles , Vincent Fromion , Philippe Robert

100 years after Smoluchowski introduces his approach to stochastic processes, they are now at the basis of mathematical and physical modeling in cellular biology: they are used for example to analyse and to extract features from large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-03-08 David Holcman , Zeev Schuss

The production processes of proteins in prokaryotic cells are investigated. Most of the mathematical models in the literature study the production of {\em one} fixed type of proteins. When several classes of proteins are considered, an…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-11-07 Vincent Fromion , Emanuele Leoncini , Philippe Robert

Cell growth and gene expression, essential elements of all living systems, have long been the focus of biophysical interrogation. Advances in single-cell methods have invigorated theoretical studies into these processes. However, until…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-22 Ido Golding , Ariel Amir

Timing is essential for many cellular processes, from cellular responses to external stimuli to the cell cycle and circadian clocks. Many of these processes are based on gene expression. For example, an activated gene may be required to…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-24 Alma Dal Co , Marco Cosentino Lagomarsino , Michele Caselle , Matteo Osella

The burst approximation is a widely used technique to simplify stochastic gene expression models. However, the dynamics and analytical properties of the protein number distribution in gene expression models under the burst approximation are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yuntao Lu , Yunxin Zhang

Stochastic processes have found numerous applications in science, as they are broadly used to model a variety of natural phenomena. Due to their intrinsic randomness and uncertainty, they are, however, difficult to characterize. Here, we…

Single-cell gene expression measurements encode variability spanning molecular noise, cell-to-cell heterogeneity, and technical artifacts. Mechanistic stochastic models provide powerful approaches to disentangle these sources, yet inferring…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-19 Christopher E. Miles

Modeling transformations between arbitrary data distributions is a fundamental scientific challenge, arising in applications like drug discovery and evolutionary simulation. While flow matching offers a natural framework for this task, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shiye Su , Yuhui Zhang , Linqi Zhou , Rajesh Ranganath , Serena Yeung-Levy

Stochasticity is both exploited and controlled by cells. Although the intrinsic stochasticity inherent in biochemistry is relatively well understood, cellular variation, or 'noise', is predominantly generated by interactions of the system…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-09-18 Vahid Shahrezaei , Julien F Ollivier , Peter S Swain

We present an algorithm for the stochastic simulation of gene expression and heterogeneous population dynamics. The algorithm combines an exact method to simulate molecular-level fluctuations in single cells and a constant-number Monte…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Daniel A. Charlebois , Jukka Intosalmi , Dawn Fraser , Mads Kaern

Intracellular transport processes are essential to the healthy development of many organisms as well as more generally to healthy cellular function. The complex dynamics and interactions between protein molecules and filaments on different…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Maria-Veronica Ciocanel

Phenotypic variation is a hallmark of cellular physiology. Metabolic heterogeneity, in particular, underpins single-cell phenomena such as microbial drug tolerance and growth variability. Much research has focussed on transcriptomic and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-31 Mona K. Tonn , Philipp Thomas , Mauricio Barahona , Diego A Oyarzún

The intrinsic stochasticity of gene expression can give rise to large fluctuations and rare events that drive phenotypic variation in a population of genetically identical cells. Characterizing the fluctuations that give rise to such rare…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-24 Jordan M. Horowitz , Rahul V. Kulkarni

We investigate the potential of numerical algorithms to decipher the kinetic parameters involved in multi-step chemical reactions. To this end we study a dimerization kinetics of protein as a model system. We follow the dimerization…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-12-24 Srijeeta Talukder , Shrabani Sen , Ralf Metzler , Suman K Banik , Pinaki Chaudhury