Posts Categorized: Life Sciences Letters

By Mehmet Eren Ahsen, Hitay Özbay, and Silviu-Iulian Niculescu
Published October 4, 2016.

A cyclic model for gene regulatory networks with time delayed negative feedback is analyzed using an extension of the so-called secant condition, which is originally developed for systems without time delays. It is shown that …

By Steffen Waldherr, Philip Trennt, and Mubashir Hussain
Published October 4, 2016.

The modeling of heterogeneous dynamic cell populations based on population balance equations is an important tool to describe the interaction between intracellular dynamics and population dynamics. However, the numerical simulation of such models remains challenging for …

By Daniel Kaschek, Frauke Henjes, Max Hasmann, Ulrike Korf, and Jens Timmer
Published November 10, 2016.

Dynamic modeling has become one of the pillars of understanding complex biological systems from a mechanistic point of view. In particular, ordinary differential equations are frequently used to model the dynamics …

By Xiaodong Yang (Member, IEEE), Aifeng Ren, Tianqiao Zhu, and Fangming Hu
Published May 13, 2016.

Digital phantoms are vital for various biomedical researches. Traditional phantoms include theoretical models and voxel models reconstructed from medical images. It has been demonstrated that the homogeneous phantom filled with uniform …

By Zhen Zhang, Tramy Nguyen, Nicholas Roehner, Göksel Misirli, Matthew Pocock, Ernst Oberortner, Meher Samineni, Zach Zundel, Jacob Beal, Kevin Clancy, Anil Wipat, and Chris J. Myers
Published March 24, 2016.

The Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is an emerging data standard for representing synthetic biology designs. …

By Adwait Sathe, Yu-an Zhang, Xiaotu Ma, Pradipta Ray, Daniela Cadinu, Yi-wei Wang, Xiao Yao, Xiaoyun Liu, Hao Tang, Yunfei Wang, Ying Huang, Changning Liu, Jin Gu, Martin Akerman, Yifan Mo, Chao Cheng, Zhenyu Xuan, Lei Chen, Guanghua Xiao, Yang Xie, Luc Girard, Hongyang Wang, …

By Eduardo D. Sontag (Fellow, IEEE) and Abhyudai Singh (Member, IEEE) Published September 29, 2015.
We introduce a class of chemical reaction networks for which all moments can be computed by finite-dimensional linear differential equations. This class allows second and higher order reactions, subject to certain …

By Andrew T. Magis, Cory C. Funk, and Nathan D. Price
Published August 28, 2015.

The process of converting raw RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data to interpretable results can be circuitous and time-consuming, requiring multiple steps. We present an RNA-seq mapping algorithm that streamlines this process. Our algorithm …