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Alice Hubenko and Igor Mezić
Outline of the talk
Network topology and regulation
Giant Strong Component
Parametric sensitivity analysis can be used
Parametric sensitivity analysis can be used
to identify dominating forward‐feedback structure of
the Giant Strong Component
Modeling a biological network
Each concentration is a state in the
dynamical system
Elementary reaction
reaction rate constant
i
HVD decomposition
d
HVD decomposition reveals the crude
structure of "influence" in the network
Does not need the exact form of equations!
[1] I. Mezić, Coupled Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Asymptotic Behavior and Uncertainty Propagation, 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control December 14‐17,(2004).
HVD decomposition for biological networks
1. Identify Strong Components (SCs) of graph G.
2. Make the graph of strong components SC(G). Vertices of SC(G)
correspond to strong components.
3. Place vertices of SC(G) with no out‐edges in the top level.
4. To form the next level: cut all the vertices that have been assigned to
some level from SC(G) and find the vertices with no out‐edges in the
resulting graph.
Problem: giant strong component
The dynamics of each component can only be affected by the ones below it
•Problem: Giant strong component
Cutting hubs reduces the size of the network,
Cutting hubs reduces the size of the network
but may can alter dynamical properties
[2] H. Ma and A. Zeng, Reconstruction of metabolic networks from genome data and analysis of their global structure for various organisms, Bioinformatics, 2003
[3] S. Schuster et al., Exploring the pathway structure of metabolism: Decomposition into subnetworks and application to Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Bioinformatics,18,
2002
Decomposition of NFkB network
Identifying
Minimal Production Unit
Dynamical system with 15 states
and 29 parameters
HVD decomposition obtained by cycle
search: a rather complicated procedure
[3] Y. Lan, I. Mezić, On the architecure of cell regulation networks , BMC systems biology
Parametric sensitivity analysis
Modeling a biological network
Sensitivity
Parameters =reaction rate constants coefficient
steady state
Absolute value of sensitivity coefficient
Step function perturbation
parametters
Sensitivity metrics
y
sensitivvity metricss
sensitivity metrics
parameters parameters
Finding the forward structure
Sensitivity metrics
States in forward part obtained by using sensitivity
metrics are identical to reduction obtained by
removing feedbacks using cycle search in [3]
i f db k i l h i [3]
Finding the dominating feedbacks
P
Parameters that affect
t th t ff t within long time interval
ithi l ti i t l
R lti d i ti f db k
Resulting dominating feedbacks:
Conclusions
•Based on the idea that the forward part of the complex biological network is
activates before the feedbacks take effect, we used parametric sensitivity analysis
to identify the forward part of the network
•Parametric sensitivity analysis is a promising tool in finding dominant parts of
complex biological networks
complex biological networks
Thank you!