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ArticlePLoS computational biology2011

Training signaling pathway maps to biochemical data with constrained fuzzy logic: quantitative analysis of liver cell responses to inflammatory stimuli.

Melody K Morris, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, David C Clarke, Peter K Sorger, Douglas A Lauffenburger

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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5 authors.

Melody K MorrisCenter for Cell Decision Processes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Julio Saez-Rodriguez
David C Clarke
Peter K Sorger
Douglas A Lauffenburger

Funding

Systems Biology of Cell Decision ProcessesP50GM068762 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2003 to 2012
$32.3M
Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54-CA112967NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068762NIGMS NIH HHS P50-GM68762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predictive understanding of cell signaling network operation based on general prior knowledge but consistent with empirical data in a specific environmental context is a current challenge in computational biology. Recent work has demonstrated that Boolean logic can be used to create context-specific network models by training proteomic pathway maps to dedicated biochemical data; however, the Boolean formalism is restricted to characterizing protein species as either fully active or inactive. To advance beyond this limitation, we propose a novel form of fuzzy logic sufficiently flexible to model quantitative data but also sufficiently simple to efficiently construct models by training pathway maps on dedicated experimental measurements. Our new approach, termed constrained fuzzy logic (cFL), converts a prior knowledge network (obtained from literature or interactome databases) into a computable model that describes graded values of protein activation across multiple pathways. We train a cFL-converted network to experimental data describing hepatocytic protein activation by inflammatory cytokines and demonstrate the application of the resultant trained models for three important purposes: (a) generating experimentally testable biological hypotheses concerning pathway crosstalk, (b) establishing capability for quantitative prediction of protein activity, and (c) prediction and understanding of the cytokine release phenotypic response. Our methodology systematically and quantitatively trains a protein pathway map summarizing curated literature to context-specific biochemical data. This process generates a computable model yielding successful prediction of new test data and offering biological insight into complex datasets that are difficult to fully analyze by intuition alone.

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Fuzzy LogicModels, BiologicalSignal TransductionAlgorithmsAnimalsComputational BiologyComputer SimulationCytokinesHep G2 CellsHumansInflammation MediatorsLiverPhosphorylationProteinsRatsReproducibility of ResultsCytokinesInflammation MediatorsProteins

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PMCPMC3048376

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