Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4498196 | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 2008 | 9 Pages |
Abstract
Methods for modeling cellular regulatory networks as diverse as differential equations and Boolean networks co-exist, however, without much closer correspondence to each other. With the example system of the fission yeast cell cycle control network, we here discuss these two approaches with respect to each other. We find that a Boolean network model can be formulated as a specific coarse-grained limit of the more detailed differential equations model for this system. This demonstrates the mathematical foundation on which Boolean networks can be applied to biological regulatory networks in a controlled way.
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Authors
Maria Davidich, Stefan Bornholdt,