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¹Computational Genetics Laboratory, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States of America. christian.darabos@dartmouth.edu

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This study introduces a new boolean model for gene regulatory networks using a novel threshold-based dynamic function. This approach enhances biological realism and aids in exploring genome evolvability and robustness.

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Area of Science:

Systems Biology
Computational Biology
Genomics

Background:

Gene-on-gene regulations are fundamental to organismal life.
Dynamical models of genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) are crucial for understanding genome evolvability and robustness.
Network topology and gene interaction dynamics significantly influence GRN stability.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a more biologically plausible boolean model of GRNs by integrating real-life gene interaction networks with novel update functions.
To investigate the dynamical behavior of GRNs, specifically the transition between order and chaos, within a critical regime.
To provide a model that incorporates recent biological knowledge and aids in guiding experimental research.

Main Methods:

Combined real-life gene interaction networks with novel threshold-based dynamic update functions in a boolean model.
Utilized yeast cell-cycle and mouse embryonic stem cell sub-networks as topological frameworks.
Validated the proposed update function using a third real-life regulatory network and its inferred boolean update functions.
Analyzed dynamical behavior using Derrida plots and criticality distance to identify phase transitions between order and chaos.

Main Results:

The novel threshold-based dynamic function demonstrated increased biological plausibility compared to standard update functions.
Simulations on real-life GRNs confirmed the existence of parameters enabling system operation within the critical region.
The new model successfully visualized phase transitions between order and chaos.

Conclusions:

The developed boolean model, incorporating experimentally derived biological information and a realistic update function, offers enhanced biological realism.
The model reduces complexity and solution space, facilitating the investigation of GRN dynamics.
This approach has the potential to guide experimental research in systems biology and genomics.