Abstract
Finding mathematical models satisfying a specification built from the formalization of biological experiments, is a common task of the modeller that techniques like model-checking help solving, in the qualitative but also in the quantitative case. In this article we propose to go one step further by defining a continuous degree of satisfaction of a temporal logic formula with constraints. We show how such a satisfaction measure can be used as a fitness function with state-of-the-art search methods in order to find biochemical kinetic parameter values satisfying a set of biological properties formalized in temporal logic. We also show how it can be used to define a measure of robustness of a biological model with respect to some specification. These methods are evaluated on models of the cell cycle and of the MAPK signalling cascade.
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Rizk, A., Batt, G., Fages, F., Soliman, S. (2008). On a Continuous Degree of Satisfaction of Temporal Logic Formulae with Applications to Systems Biology. In: Heiner, M., Uhrmacher, A.M. (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5307. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88562-7_19
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