Nene, NR;
Rivington, J;
Zaikin, A;
(2018)
Sensitivity of asymmetric rate-dependent critical systems to initial conditions: Insights into cellular decision making.
Physical Review E
, 98
(2)
, Article 022317. 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.022317.
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Abstract
The work reported here aims to address the effects of time-dependent parameters and stochasticity on decision making in biological systems. We achieve this by extending previous studies that resorted to simple bifurcation normal forms, although in the present case we focus primarily on the issue of the system's sensitivity to initial conditions in the presence of two different noise distributions, Gaussian and Lévy. In addition, we also assess the impact of two-way sweeping at different rates through the critical region of a canonical Pitchfork bifurcation with a constant external asymmetry. The parallel with decision making in biocircuits is performed on this simple system since it is equivalent in its available states and dynamics to more complex genetic circuits published previously. Overall we verify that rate-dependent effects, previously reported as being important features of bifurcating systems, are specific to particular initial conditions. Processing of each starting state, which for the normal form underlying this study is akin to a classification task, is affected by the balance between sweeping speed through critical regions and the type of fluctuations added. For the heavy-tailed noise, two-way dynamic bifurcations are more efficient in processing the external signals, here understood to be jointly represented by the critical parameter profile and the external asymmetry amplitude, when compared to the system relying on escape dynamics. This is particular to the case when the system starts at an attractor not favored by the asymmetry and, in conjunction, when the sweeping amplitude is large.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sensitivity of asymmetric rate-dependent critical systems to initial conditions: Insights into cellular decision making |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.022317 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.022317 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL EGA Institute for Womens Health > Womens Cancer |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10056085 |
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