BRIM, Luboš, Nikola BENEŠ, David ŠAFRÁNEK, Martin DEMKO, Samuel PASTVA and Matej HAJNAL. PITHYA: High-Performance Parameter Synthesis for Biological Models. In Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology. ISMB/ECCB 2017. 2017.
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Original name PITHYA: High-Performance Parameter Synthesis for Biological Models
Authors BRIM, Luboš, Nikola BENEŠ, David ŠAFRÁNEK, Martin DEMKO, Samuel PASTVA and Matej HAJNAL.
Edition Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology. ISMB/ECCB 2017, 2017.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Informatics
Keywords in English parameter synthesis; model checking; systems biology; dynamical systems; synthetic biology
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: prof. RNDr. Luboš Brim, CSc., učo 197. Changed: 26/2/2018 10:31.
Abstract
Biological systems exhibit complex behaviour emerging from non-linear interactions among system components. A system can be specified in terms of an ODE (ordinary differential equations) model typically containing parameters which can significantly affect system behaviour. In general, it is difficult to obtain exact parameters values from experimental data. The number of parameters and their interdependence make the identification of parameters values a hard task. A common approach is to use parameter estimation from time-series data. Such data might be of low resolution or even unavailable. Instead of estimating parameters from data, an alternative approach is to specify global hypotheses on system behaviour in terms of temporal properties and to use parameter synthesis methods based on model checking, a verification technique proven by decades of use in computer science. We present a new high-performance tool Pithya that implements state-of-the-art parameter synthesis methods. For a given ODE model, it allows to visually explore model behaviour with respect to different parameter values. Moreover, Pithya automatically synthesises parameter values satisfying a given property. Such property can specify various behaviour constraints, e.g., maximal reachable concentration, time ordering of events, characteristics of steady states, presence of limit cycles, etc.
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GA15-11089S, research and development projectName: Získávání parametrů biologických modelů pomocí techniky ověřování modelů
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
LM2015055, research and development projectName: Centrum pro systémovou biologii (Acronym: C4SYS)
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR
MUNI/A/0945/2015, interní kód MUName: Rozsáhlé výpočetní systémy: modely, aplikace a verifikace V.
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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