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Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Systems Biology
  • Mathematical Modeling

Background:

  • Mechanistic dynamical models are crucial for understanding complex biological systems quantitatively.
  • Automating the development of interpretable models from data is a key challenge in computational biology.
  • Sparse regression, particularly the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) algorithm, is a successful framework for model discovery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a methodology for the automatic discovery of structurally identifiable and observable mechanistic biological models.
  • To extend the SINDy-PI algorithm to ensure model interpretability and reliability.
  • To address limitations in current model discovery techniques that can result in unidentifiable models.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing the SINDy-PI algorithm for discovering rational nonlinear terms in ordinary differential equations.
  • Developing a methodology to ensure structural identifiability and observability of discovered models.
  • Applying the combined approach to six biological case studies.

Main Results:

  • The proposed methodology successfully discovers structurally identifiable and observable mechanistic models.
  • It was found that SINDy-PI can sometimes produce unidentifiable models, which the new method can transform.
  • The approach ensures models are mechanistically interpretable while maintaining sparsity.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methodology enhances automated model discovery for biological systems.
  • It ensures the reliability and interpretability of mechanistic dynamical models by addressing structural identifiability and observability.
  • This work provides a significant advancement for computational biology and systems biology research.