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Curation of models: Painstaking effort or rewarding activity?. Harish Dharuri Monday, October 20, 2014 Second Biomodels.net Training Camp. What makes it painstaking…. Incomplete information in the paper Missing Initial Conditions Parameter values
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Curation of models: Painstaking effort or rewarding activity? Harish Dharuri Monday, October 20, 2014 Second Biomodels.net Training Camp
What makes it painstaking… • Incomplete information in the paper • Missing • Initial Conditions • Parameter values • Lack of correspondence between simulation result and figures given in the paper. • Typo’s in model equations or just outright wrong representation. • Unresponsive authors.
What makes it painstaking… • Software issues: SBML compliance. • Balance the need to make models compatible across the spectrum with aesthetics of model representation.
What makes it rewarding…and there are many reasons • Learning • Learning • Learning
Examples in Model Integration • Yeast Pheromone Pathway and Cell Cycle • BIOMD0000000032 and BIOMD0000000056 • Calcium Dynamics
Yeast Pheromone Pathway CDC28+Far1PP: Leads to Cell Cycle Arrest
Recap • What we are doing… • Merging the Yeast Pheromone model and the Cell cycle model. • Far1PP-CDC28 (ComplexN) inhibits Cyclins (CLN1, CLN2 and CLN3) in the cell cycle model. • Inference made from literature. • What we hope to see… • Cell cycle stop in the G1 phase. • Needs to look like experimental data from CLN (1,2,3) mutants.
Introduction of Pheromone mating factor Dynamics of the Merged Model - DNA synthesis
Introduction of Pheromone mating factor Dynamics of the Merged Model – CKI profile
Conclusions • What makes it painstaking • Issues with • Publications • Software • Authors don’t like me • What makes it rewarding • Offers a terrific learning experience • Ideal training for a Systems Biology aspirant
Conclusions • Another Issue • Employability with this skill set • What is the market demand/perception