TY - GEN
T1 - Parameter estimation of biological phenomena modeled by S-systems
T2 - 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011
AU - Meskin, N.
AU - Nounou, H.
AU - Nounou, M.
AU - Datta, A.
AU - Dougherty, E. R.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Recent advances in high-throughput technologies for biological data acquisition have spurred a broad interest in the development of mathematical models for biological phenomena. S-systems, which offer a good compromise between accuracy and mathematical flexibility, are a promising framework for modeling the dynamical behavior of genetic regulatory networks (GRNs), as well as that of biochemical pathways. In the S-system modeling framework, the number of unknown parameters is much more than the number of metabolites and this makes the parameter estimation task a challenging one. In this paper, a new parameter estimation algorithm is developed based on the Extended Kalman filter (EKF) approach. It is first shown that the conventional EKF approach is not capable of estimating the unknown parameters of S-systems. To remedy this problem, a new iterative extended Kalman Filtering algorithm is developed in which the EKF algorithm is applied iteratively to the available noisy time profiles of the metabolites. The proposed estimation algorithm is applied to a generic branched pathway and the Cad system of E.coli. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
AB - Recent advances in high-throughput technologies for biological data acquisition have spurred a broad interest in the development of mathematical models for biological phenomena. S-systems, which offer a good compromise between accuracy and mathematical flexibility, are a promising framework for modeling the dynamical behavior of genetic regulatory networks (GRNs), as well as that of biochemical pathways. In the S-system modeling framework, the number of unknown parameters is much more than the number of metabolites and this makes the parameter estimation task a challenging one. In this paper, a new parameter estimation algorithm is developed based on the Extended Kalman filter (EKF) approach. It is first shown that the conventional EKF approach is not capable of estimating the unknown parameters of S-systems. To remedy this problem, a new iterative extended Kalman Filtering algorithm is developed in which the EKF algorithm is applied iteratively to the available noisy time profiles of the metabolites. The proposed estimation algorithm is applied to a generic branched pathway and the Cad system of E.coli. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860653911&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160690
DO - 10.1109/CDC.2011.6160690
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860653911
SN - 9781612848006
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
SP - 4424
EP - 4429
BT - 2011 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference, CDC-ECC 2011
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 12 December 2011 through 15 December 2011
ER -