Publication detail

Semi-Quantitative Abstraction and Analysis of Chemical Reaction Networks

ČEŠKA, M. KŘETÍNSKÝ, J.

Original Title

Semi-Quantitative Abstraction and Analysis of Chemical Reaction Networks

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

Analysis of large continuous-time stochastic systems is a computationally intensive task. In this work we focus on population models arising from chemical reaction networks (CRNs), which play a fundamental role in analysis and design of biochemical systems. Many relevant CRNs are particularly challenging for existing techniques due to complex dynamics including stochasticity, stiffness or multimodal population distributions. We propose a novel approach allowing not only to predict, but also to explain both the transient and steady-state behaviour. It focuses on qualitative description of the behaviour and aims at quantitative precision only in orders of magnitude. First we build a compact understandable model, which we then crudely analyse. As demonstrated on complex CRNs from literature, our approach reproduces the known results, but in contrast to the state-of-the-art methods, it runs with virtually no computational cost and thus offers unprecedented scalability.

Keywords

chemical reaction networks, continuous-time Markov chains, population level abstraction, semiquantitative reasoning 

Authors

ČEŠKA, M.; KŘETÍNSKÝ, J.

Released

17. 4. 2019

Publisher

Springer International Publishing

Location

New York

ISBN

978-3-030-25540-4

Book

Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV'19)

Edition

Lecture Notes of Computer Science

Pages from

475

Pages to

496

Pages count

22

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT159968,
  author="ČEŠKA, M. and KŘETÍNSKÝ, J.",
  title="Semi-Quantitative Abstraction and Analysis of Chemical Reaction Networks",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the 31th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV'19)",
  year="2019",
  series="Lecture Notes of Computer Science",
  volume="11561",
  pages="475--496",
  publisher="Springer International Publishing",
  address="New York",
  doi="10.1007/978-3-030-25540-4\{_}28",
  isbn="978-3-030-25540-4"
}