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Article Dans Une Revue Frontiers in Genetics Année : 2018

Griffin: A Tool for Symbolic Inference of Synchronous Boolean Molecular Networks

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Boolean networks are important models of biochemical systems, located at the high end of the abstraction spectrum. A number of Boolean gene networks have been inferred following essentially the same method. Such a method first considers experimental data for a typically underdetermined "regulation" graph. Next, Boolean networks are inferred by using biological constraints to narrow the search space, such as a desired set of (fixed-point or cyclic) attractors. We describe Griffin, a computer tool enhancing this method. Griffin incorporates a number of well-established algorithms, such as Dubrova and Teslenko's algorithm for finding attractors in synchronous Boolean networks. In addition, a formal definition of regulation allows Griffin to employ "symbolic" techniques, able to represent both large sets of network states and Boolean constraints. We observe that when the set of attractors is required to be an exact set, prohibiting additional attractors, a naive Boolean coding of this constraint may be unfeasible. Such cases may be intractable even with symbolic methods, as the number of Boolean constraints may be astronomically large. To overcome this problem, we employ an Artificial Intelligence technique known as "clause learning" considerably increasing Griffin's scalability. Without clause learning only toy examples prohibiting additional attractors are solvable: only one out of seven queries reported here is answered. With clause learning, by contrast, all seven queries are answered. We illustrate Griffin with three case studies drawn from the Arabidopsis thaliana literature. Griffin is available at: http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/griffin.
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hal-02621445 , version 1 (26-05-2020)

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Stalin Munoz, Miguel Carrillo, Eugenio Azpeitia, David A. Rosenblueth. Griffin: A Tool for Symbolic Inference of Synchronous Boolean Molecular Networks. Frontiers in Genetics, 2018, 9, ⟨10.3389/fgene.2018.00039⟩. ⟨hal-02621445⟩
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