MP-GeneticSynth: inferring biological network regulations from time series

作者:Castellini Alberto*; Paltrinieri Daniele; Manca Vincenzo
来源:Bioinformatics, 2015, 31(5): 785-787.
DOI:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu694

摘要

MP-GeneticSynth is a Java tool for discovering the logic and regulation mechanisms responsible for observed biological dynamics in terms of finite difference recurrent equations. The software makes use of: (i) metabolic P systems as a modeling framework, (ii) an evolutionary approach to discover flux regulation functions as linear combinations of given primitive functions, (iii) a suitable reformulation of the least squares method to estimate function parameters considering simultaneously all the reactions involved in complex dynamics. The tool is available as a plugin for the virtual laboratory MetaPlab. It has graphical and interactive interfaces for data preparation, a priori knowledge integration, and flux regulator analysis.

  • 出版日期2015-3-1