Conceptual and computational framework for logical modelling of biological networks deregulated in diseases.

Abstract:

Mathematical models can serve as a tool to formalize biological knowledge from diverse sources, to investigate biological questions in a formal way, to test experimental hypotheses, to predict the effect of perturbations and to identify underlying mechanisms. We present a pipeline of computational tools that performs a series of analyses to explore a logical model's properties. A logical model of initiation of the metastatic process in cancer is used as a transversal example. We start by analysing the structure of the interaction network constructed from the literature or existing databases. Next, we show how to translate this network into a mathematical object, specifically a logical model, and how robustness analyses can be applied to it. We explore the visualization of the stable states, defined as specific attractors of the model, and match them to cellular fates or biological read-outs. With the different tools we present here, we explain how to assign to each solution of the model a probability and how to identify genetic interactions using mutant phenotype probabilities. Finally, we connect the model to relevant experimental data: we present how some data analyses can direct the construction of the network, and how the solutions of a mathematical model can also be compared with experimental data, with a particular focus on high-throughput data in cancer biology. A step-by-step tutorial is provided as a Supplementary Material and all models, tools and scripts are provided on an accompanying website: https://github.com/sysbio-curie/Logical_modelling_pipeline.

SEEK ID: https://fairdomhub.org/publications/615

PubMed ID: 29237040

Projects: COVID-19 Disease Map

Publication type: Journal

Journal: Brief Bioinform

Citation: Brief Bioinform. 2019 Jul 19;20(4):1238-1249. doi: 10.1093/bib/bbx163.

Date Published: 19th Jul 2019

Registered Mode: by PubMed ID

Authors: A. Montagud, P. Traynard, L. Martignetti, E. Bonnet, E. Barillot, A. Zinovyev, L. Calzone

help Submitter
Activity

Views: 904

Created: 13th Aug 2021 at 08:48

Last updated: 8th Dec 2022 at 17:26

help Tags

This item has not yet been tagged.

help Attributions

None

Powered by
(v.1.14.2)
Copyright © 2008 - 2023 The University of Manchester and HITS gGmbH