2014/12/01 by Hari Sivakumar, Sivakumar, Hari, Stephen R. Proulx +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #92E10 #Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks #FOS: Biological sciences #Gene Regulatory Network Analysis #Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN) #Protein Structure and Dynamics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1412.0742
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This paper addresses the decomposition of biochemical networks into functional modules that preserve their dynamic properties upon interconnection with other modules, which permits the inference of network behavior from the properties of its constituent modules. The modular decomposition method developed here also has the property that any changes in the parameters of a chemical reaction only affect the dynamics of a single module. To illustrate our results, we define and analyze a few key biological modules that arise in gene regulation, enzymatic networks, and signaling pathways. We also provide a collection of examples that demonstrate how the behavior of a biological network can be deduced from the properties of its constituent modules, based on results from control systems theory.