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BIOINFORMATICS
卷 26, 期 1, 页码 104-110出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btp619
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- Medical Research Council
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/G009374/1]
- BBSRC [BB/F005210/1, BB/F005210/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F005210/1, BB/C519670/1, BB/F005210/2] Funding Source: researchfish
Motivation: Computer simulations have become an important tool across the biomedical sciences and beyond. For many important problems several different models or hypotheses exist and choosing which one best describes reality or observed data is not straightforward. We therefore require suitable statistical tools that allow us to choose rationally between different mechanistic models of, e. g. signal transduction or gene regulation networks. This is particularly challenging in systems biology where only a small number of molecular species can be assayed at any given time and all measurements are subject to measurement uncertainty. Results: Here, we develop such a model selection framework based on approximate Bayesian computation and employing sequential Monte Carlo sampling. We show that our approach can be applied across a wide range of biological scenarios, and we illustrate its use on real data describing influenza dynamics and the JAK-STAT signalling pathway. Bayesian model selection strikes a balance between the complexity of the simulation models and their ability to describe observed data. The present approach enables us to employ the whole formal apparatus to any system that can be (efficiently) simulated, even when exact likelihoods are computationally intractable.
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