Beyond Boolean Networks

19.05.2022 17:30 - 18:00

Alicia Dickenstein (University of Buenos Aires)

Abstract: I will report on work in progress with Juliana García Galofre, Mercedes Pérez Millán and Reinhard Laubenbacher, which is an invitation to model biological networks with any (fixed) finite number of states for every node; in particular, to predict the qualitative behavior of gene regulatory networks. To model the dynamics, we represent each transition function via operations used in multivalued logic, which are intuitive and close to biological interpretations. We generalize several good properties of Boolean networks and we give an algorithm for computing the steady states of the system that in many instances has a complexity that does not essentially increase with the number of states.

Organiser:
Stefan Müller
Location:
Zoom Meeting