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    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Jun 30;106(26):10546-51. Epub 2009 Jun 12.

    Adiabatic coarse-graining and simulations of stochastic biochemical networks.

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    Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences Division, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.

    Abstract

    We propose a universal approach for analysis and fast simulations of stiff stochastic biochemical networks, which rests on elimination of fast chemical species without a loss of information about mesoscopic, non-Poissonian fluctuations of the slow ones. Our approach is similar to the Born-Oppenheimer approximation in quantum mechanics and follows from the stochastic path integral representation of the cumulant generating function of reaction events. In applications with a small number of chemical reactions, it produces analytical expressions for cumulants of chemical fluxes between the slow variables. This allows for a low-dimensional, interpretable representation and can be used for high-accuracy, low-complexity coarse-grained numerical simulations. As an example, we derive the coarse-grained description for a chain of biochemical reactions and show that the coarse-grained and the microscopic simulations agree, but the former is 3 orders of magnitude faster.

    PMID:
    19525397
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
    PMCID:
    PMC2705573
    Free PMC Article

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