inria-00378037, version 1
Validation of a morphogenesis model of Drosophila early development by a multi-objective evolutionary optimization algorithm
Rui Dilão 1Daniele Muraro 1Miguel Nicolau
2, 3Marc Schoenauer
2, 3
European Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (2009) 176-190
Résumé : We apply evolutionary computation to calibrate the parameters of a morphogenesis model of Drosophila early development. The model aims to describe the establishment of the steady gradients of Bicoid and Caudal proteins along the antero-posterior axis of the embryo of Drosophila. The model equations consist of a system of non-linear parabolic partial differential equations with initial and zero flux boundary conditions. We compare the results of single- and multi-objective variants of the CMA-ES algorithm for the model the calibration with the experimental data. Whereas the multi-objective algorithm computes a full approximation of the Pareto front, repeated runs of the single-objective algorithm give solutions that dominate (in the Pareto sense) the results of the multi-objective approach. We retain as best solutions those found by the latter technique. From the biological point of view, all such solutions are all equally acceptable, and for our test cases, the relative error between the experimental data and validated model solutions on the Pareto front are in the range 3%-6%. This technique is general and can be used as a generic tool for parameter calibration problems.
- 1 : Nonlinear Dynamics Group / Grupo de Dinâmica Não-Linear (GDNL)
- Instituto Superior Tecnico de Lisboa
- 2 : Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI)
- CNRS : UMR8623 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
- 3 : TAO (INRIA Saclay - Ile de France)
- INRIA – CNRS : UMR8623 – Université Paris XI - Paris Sud
- Domaine : Sciences du Vivant/Biologie du développement/Morphogenèse
Informatique/Intelligence artificielle
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- Contributeur : Miguel Nicolau
- Soumis le : Jeudi 23 Avril 2009, 14:29:57
- Dernière modification le : Jeudi 23 Avril 2009, 15:17:56






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