title: Methods of information geometry in computational system biology (consistency between chemical and biological evolution).
abstract: Interest in simulation of large-scale metabolic networks, species development, and genesis of various diseases requires new simulation techniques to accommodate the high complexity of realistic biological networks. Information geometry and topological formalisms are proposed to analyze information processes. We analyze the complexity of large-scale biological networks as well as transition of the system functionality due to modification in the system architecture, system environment, and system components. The dynamic core model is developed. The term dynamic core is used to define a set of causally related network functions. Delocalization of dynamic core model provides a mathematical formalism to analyze migration of specific functions in biosystems which undergo structure transition induced by the environment. The term delocalization is used to describe these processes of migration. We constructed a holographic model with self-poetic dynamic cores which preserves functional properties under those transitions. Topological constraints such as Ricci flow and Pfaff dimension were found for statistical manifolds which represent biological networks. These constraints can provide insight on processes of degeneration and recovery which take place in large-scale networks. We would like to suggest that therapies which are able to effectively implement estimated constraints, will successfully adjust biological systems and recover altered functionality. Also, we mathematically formulate the hypothesis that there is a direct consistency between biological and chemical evolution. Any set of causal relations within a biological network has its dual reimplementation in the chemistry of the system environment.
authors.affiliation: Biomedical Informatics Research Network Coordination Center, The Center for Research in Biological Systems (CRBS), UCSD, La Jolla, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Vadim
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Astakhov
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D019295:Computational Biology; D053858:Metabolic Networks and Pathways; D008954:Models, Biological; D049490:Systems Biology