Title
Abstracting the dynamics of biological pathways using information theory: a case study of apoptosis pathway.
Abstract
Motivation: Quantitative models are increasingly used in systems biology. Usually, these quantitative models involve many molecular species and their associated reactions. When simulating a tissue with thousands of cells, using these large models becomes computationally and time limiting. Results: In this paper, we propose to construct abstractions using information theory notions. Entropy is used to discretize the state space and mutual information is used to select a subset of all original variables and their mutual dependencies. We apply our method to an hybrid model of TRAIL-induced apoptosis in HeLa cell. Our abstraction, represented as a Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN), reduces the number of variables from 92 to 10, and accelerates numerical simulation by an order of magnitude, yet preserving essential features of cell death time distributions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1093/bioinformatics/btx095
BIOINFORMATICS
Field
DocType
Volume
Information theory,Discretization,Abstraction,Computer simulation,Computer science,Systems biology,Theoretical computer science,Mutual information,Bioinformatics,State space,Dynamic Bayesian network
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
13
1367-4803
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
6
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sucheendra K Palaniappan1343.93
François Bertaux261.62
Matthieu Pichené320.73
Eric Fabre4708.91
Grégory Batt536425.79
Blaise Genest630425.09