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    Using optimal control to understand complex metabolic pathways

    Optimality principles have been used to explain the structure and behavior of living matter at different levels of organization, from basic phenomena at the molecular level, up to complex dynamics in whole pop...

    Nikolaos Tsiantis, Julio R. Banga in BMC Bioinformatics (2020)

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    Parameter estimation in models of biological oscillators: an automated regularised estimation approach

    Dynamic modelling is a core element in the systems biology approach to understanding complex biosystems. Here, we consider the problem of parameter estimation in models of biological oscillators described by d...

    Jake Alan Pitt, Julio R. Banga in BMC Bioinformatics (2019)

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    Parameter estimation in large-scale systems biology models: a parallel and self-adaptive cooperative strategy

    The development of large-scale kinetic models is one of the current key issues in computational systems biology and bioinformatics. Here we consider the problem of parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic mod...

    David R. Penas, Patricia González, Jose A. Egea, Ramón Doallo in BMC Bioinformatics (2017)

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    Enabling network inference methods to handle missing data and outliers

    The inference of complex networks from data is a challenging problem in biological sciences, as well as in a wide range of disciplines such as chemistry, technology, economics, or sociology. The quantity and q...

    Abel Folch-Fortuny, Alejandro F. Villaverde, Alberto Ferrer in BMC Bioinformatics (2015)

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    Optimal programs of pathway control: dissecting the influence of pathway topology and feedback inhibition on pathway regulation

    Adjusting the capacity of metabolic pathways in response to rapidly changing environmental conditions is an important component of microbial adaptation strategies to stochastic environments. In this work, we u...

    Gundián M de Hijas-Liste, Eva Balsa-Canto, Jan Ewald, Martin Bartl in BMC Bioinformatics (2015)

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    MEIGO: an open-source software suite based on metaheuristics for global optimization in systems biology and bioinformatics

    Optimization is the key to solving many problems in computational biology. Global optimization methods, which provide a robust methodology, and metaheuristics in particular have proven to be the most efficient...

    Jose A Egea, David Henriques, Thomas Cokelaer, Alejandro F Villaverde in BMC Bioinformatics (2014)

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    DOTcvpSB, a software toolbox for dynamic optimization in systems biology

    Mathematical optimization aims to make a system or design as effective or functional as possible, computing the quality of the different alternatives using a mathematical model. Most models in systems biology ...

    Tomáš Hirmajer, Eva Balsa-Canto, Julio R Banga in BMC Bioinformatics (2009)

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    Novel metaheuristic for parameter estimation in nonlinear dynamic biological systems

    We consider the problem of parameter estimation (model calibration) in nonlinear dynamic models of biological systems. Due to the frequent ill-conditioning and multi-modality of many of these problems, traditi...

    Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Jose A Egea, Julio R Banga in BMC Bioinformatics (2006)