SGN Sim
SGN Sim, a stochastic genetic networks simulator. We present SGNSim, ’Stochastic Gene Networks Simulator’, a tool to model gene regulatory networks (GRN) where transcription and translation are modeled as multiple time delayed events and its dynamics is driven by a stochastic simulation algorithm (SSA) able to deal with multiple time delayed events. The delays can be drawn from several distributions and the reaction rates from complex functions or from physical parameters. SGNSim can generate ensembles of GRNs, within a set of user-defined parameters, such as topology. It can also be used to model specific GRNs and systems of chemical reactions. Perturbations, e.g. gene deletion, over-expression, copy and mutation, can be modeled as well. As examples, we present a model of a toggle switch without cooperative binding subject to perturbations, a system of reactions within a compartmentalized environment where membrane crossing is controlled by a negative feedback mechanism and a simulation based on the yeast transcriptional network. AVAILABILITY: SGNSim program, instructions and examples available at www.ucalgary.ca/ aribeiro/SGNtheSim/SGNtheSim.html.
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Sorted by year (- Sanguinetti, Guido (ed.); Huynh-Thu, Vân Anh (ed.): Gene regulatory networks. Methods and protocols (2019)
- Ballarini, Paolo; Duflot, Marie: Applications of an expressive statistical model checking approach to the analysis of genetic circuits (2015)
- Häkkinen, Antti; Ribeiro, Andre S.: Evolving kinetics of gene expression in stochastic environments (2012)
- Martins, Leonardo; Mäkelä, Jarno; Häkkinen, Antti; Kandhavelu, Meenakshisundaram; Yli-Harja, Olli; Fonseca, José M.; Ribeiro, Andre S.: Dynamics of transcription of closely spaced promoters in \textitEscherichiacoli, one event at a time (2012)
- Ribeiro, Andre S.: Stochastic and delayed stochastic models of gene expression and regulation (2010)
- Dai, Xiaofeng; Healy, Shannon; Yli-Harja, Olli; Ribeiro, Andre S.: Tuning cell differentiation patterns and single cell dynamics by regulating proteins’ functionalities in a toggle switch (2009)
- Ribeiro, Andre S.; Dai, Xiaofeng; Yli-Harja, Olli: Variability of the distribution of differentiation pathway choices regulated by a multipotent delayed stochastic switch (2009)
- Ribeiro, Andre S.; Lloyd-Price, Jason: Sgn sim, a stochastic genetic networks simulator (2007) ioport