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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2019

Simulation and inference algorithms for stochastic biochemical reaction networks: from basic concepts to state-of-the-art.

David J Warne, Ruth E Baker, Matthew J Simpson

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Article in Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

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3 authors.

David J Warne1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, Queensland 4001 , Australia.
Ruth E Baker2 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford , Oxford OX2 6GG , UK.
Matthew J Simpson1 School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology , Brisbane, Queensland 4001 , Australia.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/R000816/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stochasticity is a key characteristic of intracellular processes such as gene regulation and chemical signalling. Therefore, characterizing stochastic effects in biochemical systems is essential to understand the complex dynamics of living things. Mathematical idealizations of biochemically reacting systems must be able to capture stochastic phenomena. While robust theory exists to describe such stochastic models, the computational challenges in exploring these models can be a significant burden in practice since realistic models are analytically intractable. Determining the expected behaviour and variability of a stochastic biochemical reaction network requires many probabilistic simulations of its evolution. Using a biochemical reaction network model to assist in the interpretation of time-course data from a biological experiment is an even greater challenge due to the intractability of the likelihood function for determining observation probabilities. These computational challenges have been subjects of active research for over four decades. In this review, we present an accessible discussion of the major historical developments and state-of-the-art computational techniques relevant to simulation and inference problems for stochastic biochemical reaction network models. Detailed algorithms for particularly important methods are described and complemented with Matlab

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AlgorithmsModels, BiologicalSignal TransductionSystems BiologyStochastic Processesapproximate Bayesian computationBayesian inferencebiochemical reaction networksMonte Carlostochastic simulation

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PMID30958205
PMCPMC6408336

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