UMMS Affiliation
Department of Neurology
Publication Date
2018-02-21
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Biology | Computational Biology | Computational Neuroscience | Computer Sciences
Abstract
The ability to define the unique features of an input stimulus needed to control switch-like behavior in biological systems is an important problem in computational biology and medicine. We show in this study how highly complex and intractable optimization problems can be simplified by restricting the search to the signal's extrema as key feature points, and evolving the extrema features towards optimal solutions that closely match solutions derived from gradient-based methods. Our results suggest a model-independent approach for solving a class of optimization problems related to controlling switch-like state transitions.
Keywords
Computational models, Computational neuroscience, Dynamical systems
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DOI of Published Version
10.1038/s41598-018-21761-8
Source
Sci Rep. 2018 Feb 21;8(1):3403. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21761-8. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Scientific reports
Related Resources
PubMed ID
29467377
Repository Citation
Chang JT, Paydarfar D. (2018). Evolution of extrema features reveals optimal stimuli for biological state transitions. Open Access Publications by UMMS Authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21761-8. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/3392
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