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ArticleRoyal Society open science2019

Parameter inference in dynamical systems with co-dimension 1 bifurcations.

Elisabeth Roesch, Michael P H Stumpf

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Elisabeth RoeschMelbourne Integrative Genomics, School of BioScience and School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.
Michael P H StumpfMelbourne Integrative Genomics, School of BioScience and School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-3577-1222

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Dynamical systems with intricate behaviour are all-pervasive in biology. Many of the most interesting biological processes indicate the presence of bifurcations, i.e. phenomena where a small change in a system parameter causes qualitatively different behaviour. Bifurcation theory has become a rich field of research in its own right and evaluating the bifurcation behaviour of a given dynamical system can be challenging. An even greater challenge, however, is to learn the bifurcation structure of dynamical systems from data, where the precise model structure is not known. Here, we study one aspects of this problem: the practical implications that the presence of bifurcations has on our ability to infer model parameters and initial conditions from empirical data; we focus on the canonical co-dimension 1 bifurcations and provide a comprehensive analysis of how dynamics, and our ability to infer kinetic parameters are linked. The picture thus emerging is surprisingly nuanced and suggests that identification of the qualitative dynamics-the bifurcation diagram-should precede any attempt at inferring kinetic parameters.

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bifurcationparameter inferencestability analysis

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