Experimental design for system identication of boolean control networks in biology
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This study is primarily motivated by biological applications and focuses on the identification of Boolean networks from scarce and noisy data. We consider two Bayesian experimental design scenarios: selection of the observations under a budget, and input design. The goal is to maximize the mutual information between models and data, that is the ultimate statistical upper bound on the identifiability of a system from empirical data. First, we introduce a method to select which components of the state variable to measure under a budget constraint, and at which time points. Our greedy approach takes advantage of the submodularity of the mutual information, and hence requires only a polynomial number of evaluations of the objective to achieve near-optimal designs. Second, we consider the computationally harder task of designing sequences of input interventions, and propose a likelihood-free approximation method. Exact and approximate design solutions are verified with predictive models of genetic regulatory interaction networks in embryonic development. Show more
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2014 IEEE 53rd Annual Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2014)Pages / Article No.
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IEEEEvent
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03751 - Lygeros, John / Lygeros, John
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