Sensitivity analysis approaches applied to systems biology models

Z Zi - IET systems biology, 2011 - IET
With the rising application of systems biology, sensitivity analysis methods have been widely
applied to study the biological systems, including metabolic networks, signalling pathways …

Model-based design of experiments for parameter precision: State of the art

G Franceschini, S Macchietto - Chemical Engineering Science, 2008 - Elsevier
Due to the wide use and key importance of mathematical models in process engineering,
experiment design is becoming an essential tool for the rapid building and validation of …

GeneNetWeaver: in silico benchmark generation and performance profiling of network inference methods

T Schaffter, D Marbach, D Floreano - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: Over the last decade, numerous methods have been developed for inference of
regulatory networks from gene expression data. However, accurate and systematic …

The nature of systems biology

FJ Bruggeman, HV Westerhoff - TRENDS in Microbiology, 2007 - cell.com
The advent of functional genomics has enabled the molecular biosciences to come a long
way towards characterizing the molecular constituents of life. Yet, the challenge for biology …

Graph-based methods for analysing networks in cell biology

T Aittokallio, B Schwikowski - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Availability of large-scale experimental data for cell biology is enabling computational
methods to systematically model the behaviour of cellular networks. This review surveys the …

Towards a rigorous assessment of systems biology models: the DREAM3 challenges

RJ Prill, D Marbach, J Saez-Rodriguez, PK Sorger… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Background Systems biology has embraced computational modeling in response to the
quantitative nature and increasing scale of contemporary data sets. The onslaught of data is …

Generating Realistic In Silico Gene Networks for Performance Assessment of Reverse Engineering Methods

D Marbach, T Schaffter, C Mattiussi… - Journal of computational …, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Reverse engineering methods are typically first tested on simulated data from in silico
networks, for systematic and efficient performance assessment, before an application to real …

Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems

M Rodriguez-Fernandez, JA Egea, JR Banga - BMC bioinformatics, 2006 - Springer
Background We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in
nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and …

Reverse engineering and identification in systems biology: strategies, perspectives and challenges

AF Villaverde, JR Banga - Journal of the Royal Society …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The interplay of mathematical modelling with experiments is one of the central elements in
systems biology. The aim of reverse engineering is to infer, analyse and understand …

Systems biology: experimental design

C Kreutz, J Timmer - The FEBS journal, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Experimental design has a long tradition in statistics, engineering and life sciences, dating
back to the beginning of the last century when optimal designs for industrial and agricultural …