Delays in biological regulatory networks (BRN)

  • Authors:
  • Jamil Ahmad;Adrien Richard;Gilles Bernot;Jean-Paul Comet;Olivier Roux

  • Affiliations:
  • IRCCyN UMR CNRS 6597, Nantes Cedex 3, France;Programme épigénomique and IBISC, Université d'Evry, Evry cedex, France;Programme épigénomique and IBISC, Université d'Evry, Evry cedex, France;Programme épigénomique and IBISC, Université d'Evry, Evry cedex, France;IRCCyN UMR CNRS 6597, Nantes Cedex 3, France

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this article, we propose a refinement of the modeling of genetic regulatory networks based on the approach of René Thomas. The notion of delays of activation/inhibition are added in order to specify which variable is faster affected by a change of its regulators. The formalism of linear hybrid automata is well suited to allow such refinement. We then use HyTech for two purposes: (1) to find automatically all paths from a specified initial state to another one and (2) to synthesize constraints on the delay parameters in order to follow any specific path.