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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Switching regulatory models of cellular stress response
<28> Originality: The paper devises a novel approximate inference approach for continuous time hybrid continuous-discrete models of gene regulation.
Significance: Inference in gene regulation is essential as Transcription Factor protein levels can rarely be measured. However, inference in realistic, continuous time models of transcription is technically challenging. This paper proposed a new hybrid model which was then generalised to allow, for the first time, an inferential framework for hierarchical and combinatorial gene networks.
Rigour: A novel optimisation based inference method for a class of dynamical systems was developed, with theoretical guarantees of convergence.