Geometric path integrals. A language for multiscale biology and systems robustness

DOI10.1007/978-88-470-1947-8_16zbMATH Open1244.92026arXiv1108.5399OpenAlexW1480085109MaRDI QIDQ2905009FDOQ2905009

Authors: Emanuel Petricoin, D. C. Struppa, Domenico Napoletani 

Publication date: 24 August 2012

Published in: The Mathematical Legacy of Leon Ehrenpreis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we suggest that, under suitable conditions, supervised learning can provide the basis to formulate at the microscopic level quantitative questions on the phenotype structure of multicellular organisms. The problem of explaining the robustness of the phenotype structure is rephrased as a real geometrical problem on a fixed domain. We further suggest a generalization of path integrals that reduces the problem of deciding whether a given molecular network can generate specific phenotypes to a numerical property of a robustness function with complex output, for which we give heuristic justification. Finally, we use our formalism to interpret a pointedly quantitative developmental biology problem on the allowed number of pairs of legs in centipedes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5399

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Systems biology, networks (92C42) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

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