Characterizing oscillatory and noisy periodic behavior in markov population models

  • Authors:
  • David Spieler

  • Affiliations:
  • Saarland University, Germany

  • Venue:
  • QEST'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In systems biology, an interesting problem is to analyze and characterize the oscillatory and periodic behavior of a chemical reaction system. Traditionally, those systems have been treated deterministically and continuously via ordinary differential equations. In case of high molecule counts with respect to the volume this treatment is justified. But otherwise, stochastic fluctuations can have a high influence on the characteristics of a system as has been shown in recent publications. In this paper we develop an efficient numerical approach for analyzing the oscillatory and periodic character of user-defined observations on Markov population models (MPMs). MPMs are a special kind of continuous-time Markov chains that allow for a discrete representation of unbounded population counts for several population types and transformations between populations. Examples are chemical species and the reactions between them.