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Numerically Efficient Analysis of a One-Dimensional Stochastic Lac Operon Model

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Gene expression models and their analysis play a key role to understand gene regulation mechanisms. The lac operon mechanism has been largely studied to analyze its bistable behavior. In this paper a stochastic quasi steady-state lac operon model which is indeed a one dimensional birth-death process is considered. Nevertheless the well known closed-from solutions, due to the nonlinearity of parameters, the intermediate computed values become out of the representation range with the increase of the state space size. An aggregation-based two step algorithm is proposed to compute the steady-state distribution efficiently. The results of the stochastic model give the same parameter range for the bistable behavior as with the deterministic ODE model.

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This work was supported in part by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council and the Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques in the framework of the Bosphorus PIA Program as a joint research project with grant number 111E082.

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Avcu, N., Pekergin, N., Pekergin, F., Güzeliş, C. (2016). Numerically Efficient Analysis of a One-Dimensional Stochastic Lac Operon Model. In: Abdelrahman, O., Gelenbe, E., Gorbil, G., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 363. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22635-4_24

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