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ArticleBiotechnology progress

In silico model-based inference: a contemporary approach for hypothesis testing in network biology.

David J Klinke

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Article in Biotechnology progress. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

David J KlinkeDept. of Chemical Engineering, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506; Dept. of Microbiology, Immunology and Cell Biology, Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506.
West Virginia University · US

Funding

Noncanonical signaling and Emergent Trastuzumab Resistance in Breast CancerR15CA132124 · NCI · WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY · PI KLINKE, DAVID JOHN · 2009 to 2012
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NCI NIH HHS R15 CA132124NCI NIH HHS R15CA132124
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inductive inference plays a central role in the study of biological systems where one aims to increase their understanding of the system by reasoning backwards from uncertain observations to identify causal relationships among components of the system. These causal relationships are postulated from prior knowledge as a hypothesis or simply a model. Experiments are designed to test the model. Inferential statistics are used to establish a level of confidence in how well our postulated model explains the acquired data. This iterative process, commonly referred to as the scientific method, either improves our confidence in a model or suggests that we revisit our prior knowledge to develop a new model. Advances in technology impact how we use prior knowledge and data to formulate models of biological networks and how we observe cellular behavior. However, the approach for model-based inference has remained largely unchanged since Fisher, Neyman and Pearson developed the ideas in the early 1900s that gave rise to what is now known as classical statistical hypothesis (model) testing. Here, I will summarize conventional methods for model-based inference and suggest a contemporary approach to aid in our quest to discover how cells dynamically interpret and transmit information for therapeutic aims that integrates ideas drawn from high performance computing, Bayesian statistics, and chemical kinetics.

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Computer SimulationModels, BiologicalResearch DesignAlgorithmsBayes TheoremCytokinesHeLa CellsHumansMonte Carlo MethodSignal TransductionSystems BiologyT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerYeastsCytokinescomputational Bayesian statisticsdynamic systemsinductive inferenceMarkov chain Monte Carloscientific method

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PMID25139179
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