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Protocol to quantify energy landscape of high-dimensional oscillatory systems using diffusion decomposition
Shirui Bian1, Ruisong Zhou1, Wei Lin2
1School of Mathematical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Abstract:
Here, we present a numerical framework to quantify the energy landscape of high-dimensional stochastic oscillatory systems, based on the diffusion decomposition of Gaussian approximation (DDGA). We describe steps for downloading codes, setting the oscillatory dynamics, and calculating the one-dimensional pre-solution along the limit cycle and the covariance matrix on normal planes. We then detail procedures for quantifying the global landscape through the DDGA. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Bian et al.1.
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