TY - JOUR AU - Ironi, Liliana AU - Panzeri, Luigi PY - 2009 DA - 2009/10/15 TI - A computational framework for qualitative simulation of nonlinear dynamical models of gene-regulatory networks JO - BMC Bioinformatics SP - S14 VL - 10 IS - 12 AB - Due to the huge amount of information at genomic level made recently available by high-throughput experimental technologies, networks of regulatory interactions between genes and gene products, the so-called gene-regulatory networks, can be uncovered. Most networks of interest are quite intricate because of both the high dimension of interacting elements and the complexity of the kinds of interactions between them. Then, mathematical and computational modeling frameworks are a must to predict the network behavior in response to environmental stimuli. A specific class of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) has shown to be adequate to describe the essential features of the dynamics of gene-regulatory networks. But, deriving quantitative predictions of the network dynamics through the numerical simulation of such models is mostly impracticable as they are currently characterized by incomplete knowledge of biochemical reactions underlying regulatory interactions, and of numeric values of kinetic parameters. SN - 1471-2105 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-S12-S14 DO - 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S12-S14 ID - Ironi2009 ER -