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ArticleCell systems2016

Exploiting Natural Fluctuations to Identify Kinetic Mechanisms in Sparsely Characterized Systems.

Andreas Hilfinger, Thomas M Norman, Johan Paulsson

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Article in Cell systems, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18 citing papers in PubMed.

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  12. Using Models to (Re-)Design Synthetic Circuits.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  16. Distribution shapes govern the discovery of predictive models for gene regulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Andreas HilfingerDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: andreas_hilfinger@hms.harvard.edu.
Thomas M NormanDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Johan PaulssonDepartment of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: johan_paulsson@harvard.edu.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

From biochemistry to ecology, many biological systems are stochastic, complex, and sparsely characterized. In such systems, each component may respond to changes in any directly or indirectly connected components, thus requiring knowledge of the whole to predict the dynamics of the parts. Here, we address this challenge by deriving relations between properties of fluctuations that only reflect local interactions between a subset of components but are invariant to all indirectly connected dynamics. This greatly reduces the number of assumptions when evaluating dynamic models experimentally. We illustrate the approach by revisiting systematic single-cell gene expression data, and we show that the observed fluctuations contradict the assumptions made in most published models of stochastic gene expression, even when accounting for the possibility of systematic experimental artifacts.

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Models, BiologicalAlgorithmsComputer SimulationEcologyGene Regulatory NetworksKineticsStochastic Processesgene expressionsingle-cell dynamicsstochastic processestheorems in biology

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