Zabet, Nicolae Radu and Chu, Dominique F. (2010) Stochasticity and robustness in bi-stable systems. In: UNSPECIFIED.
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Abstract
The genetic bi-stable switch (toggle switch) consists of two genes which repress one another through their synthesised proteins. In the stochastic bi-stable case, the toggle switch exhibits noise induced flips. Using simulation based techniques, we identified three methods for reducing the random flipping probability, namely: (i) increasing the system size, (ii) increasing the synthesis rate, and (iii) increasing the Hill coefficient. Our heat-maps showed that for large parts of parameter space the toggle switch displays extremely low noise induced flipping probability, and consequently high robustness. We also analysed the noise analytically. The area of validity of the analytical approach was found to be constrained to low Hill coefficients and high synthesis rate (both conditions within biological realistic parameters). Most importantly, we observed that increasing the synthesis rate is more efficient in reducing the noise compared to the increase in system size, for systems affected by negative feedback.
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| Additional information: | http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5518099&isnumber=5514659 |
| Uncontrolled keywords: | determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Science Technology and Medical Studies > School of Computing > Computational Intelligence Group |
| Depositing User: | Dominique Chu |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Sep 2012 09:49 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Sep 2012 09:49 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/30661 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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