Team:Paris/Network analysis and design/Core system/Model construction/Detailed justification

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Detailed justification


We shall present here a more detailed presentation of the choice we made as far as our model is concerned

Contents

Sum effect and linear modelling

  • Yet, the flagella gene network has been thoroughly studied in [1]. We used two major results presented in this study. Firstly, Shiraz Kalir and Uri Alon came up with the fact that the promoters of class 2 genes, among which fliL, flgA and flhB, behaved like SUM-gate functions with flhDC and fliA inputs. Secondly, their experiments proved that these influences could be considered as linear. Thus the following model:


Promoter Activity.jpg


β and β’ represent the relative influence of flhDC and fliA respectively, the units of β and β’ being time-1.

  • Furthermore, they came up with numerical values of β and β’ for each gene, which fitted quite well to their experiments. We then decided that we could use those values as well in our model.

Use hill quand on ne sait pas

Normalization

Parameters table

Bibliography