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ArticleScientific reports2018

Evolution of extrema features reveals optimal stimuli for biological state transitions.

Joshua Chang, David Paydarfar

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Authors and funding

2 authors.

Joshua ChangDepartment of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01604, USA. joshua.chang@austin.utexas.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4088-5467
David PaydarfarDepartment of Neurology, Dell Medical School, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 78701, USA. david.paydarfar@austin.utexas.edu.

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Research Resource for Complex Physiologic SignalsR01GM104987 · NIGMS · BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER · PI GOLDBERGER, ARY LOUIS, MARK, ROGER GREENWOOD · 2012 to 2019
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM104987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to define the unique features of an input stimulus needed to control switch-like behavior in biological systems is an important problem in computational biology and medicine. We show in this study how highly complex and intractable optimization problems can be simplified by restricting the search to the signal's extrema as key feature points, and evolving the extrema features towards optimal solutions that closely match solutions derived from gradient-based methods. Our results suggest a model-independent approach for solving a class of optimization problems related to controlling switch-like state transitions.

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AlgorithmsBiological EvolutionComputational BiologyComputer SimulationModels, Biological

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PMID29467377
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