A coherent framework for multiresolution analysis of biological networks with "memory": Ras pathway, cell cycle, and immune system.
Various biological processes exhibit characteristics that vary dramatically in response to different input conditions or changes in the history of the process itself. One of the examples studied here, the Ras-PKC-mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) bistable pathway, follows two distinct dynamics (modes) depending on duration and strength of EGF stimulus. Similar examples are found in the behavior of the cell cycle and the immune system. A classification methodology, based on time-frequency analysis, was developed and tested on these systems to understand global behavior of biological processes. Contrary to most traditionally used statistical and spectral methods, our approach captures complex functional relations between parts of the systems in a simple way. The resulting algorithms are capable of analyzing and classifying sets of time-series data obtained from in vivo or in vitro experiments, or in silico simulation of biological processes. The method was found to be considerably stable under stochastic noise perturbation and, therefore, suitable for the analysis of real experimental data.
Barbano
Paolo Emilio
PE
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012, USA.
Spivak
Marina
M
Feng
Jiawu
J
Antoniotti
Marco
M
Mishra
Bud
B
D000465:Algorithms; D002453:Cell Cycle / Q000502:physiology*; D007109:Immunity / Q000502:physiology*; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011493:Protein Kinase C / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D049490:Systems Biology; D013997:Time Factors; D018631:ras Proteins / Q000378:metabolism
D011493:Protein Kinase C; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D018631:ras Proteins