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Learning to Fight Against Cell Stimuli: A Game Theoretic Perspective
Seyed Hamid Hosseini1, Mahdi Imani1
1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University.
Current genomic interventions fail to address dynamic cellular responses, leading to treatment ineffectiveness. A new game-theoretic model explains this dynamic and explores AI-driven solutions for improved personalized medicine.
Area of Science:
- Genomics
- Computational Biology
- Systems Biology
Background:
- Genomic sequencing advances personalized medicine but struggles with cellular complexity and dynamic responses.
- Current interventions are limited by their inability to account for cell stimuli and dynamic responses.
- These limitations contribute to chronic disease recurrence and suboptimal genomic interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze the dynamic interplay between cellular responses and genomic interventions.
- To demonstrate why current genomic interventions become ineffective over time.
- To explore the potential of artificial intelligence in developing more effective genomic solutions.
Main Methods:
- Development of a game-theoretic model to simulate the interaction between cells and interventions.
- Analytical and numerical demonstrations of the model's predictions.
- Analysis of melanoma regulatory networks to assess intervention performance.
Main Results:
- The game-theoretic model analytically and numerically demonstrates the progressive ineffectiveness of current interventions.
- The study highlights the critical role of dynamic cellular responses in intervention outcomes.
- Melanoma regulatory networks serve as a case study for performance analysis.
Conclusions:
- Current genomic interventions are inherently limited by their static approach to dynamic biological systems.
- A dynamic, game-theoretic perspective is crucial for understanding intervention failure.
- Artificial intelligence offers a promising avenue for deriving adaptive and effective genomic interventions.
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