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The problem of evaluation of parametric stability of three models of pro- and eukaryotic gene networks controlling ontogenetic processes has been defined and solved. Experimental schemes of testing gene networks for parametric stability based on the method of generalized threshold models were developed and realized as a software application. We studied the “sensitivity” of the functioning modes to random variations of the parameters in three model systems: λ phage development control system, Arabidopsis thaliana flower morphogenesis control subsystem, and gene subnetwork controlling early ontogeny of Drosophila melanogaster. The parametric stability was quantitatively assessed for these models.
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Tchuraev, R.N., Galimzyanov, A.V. On Parametric Stability of Gene Networks Controlling Ontogenetic Processes. Molecular Biology 37, 81–88 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022388930948
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