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abstract:
- lang: eng
text: Understanding and characterising biochemical processes inside single cells
requires experimental platforms that allow one to perturb and observe the dynamics
of such processes as well as computational methods to build and parameterise models
from the collected data. Recent progress with experimental platforms and optogenetics
has made it possible to expose each cell in an experiment to an individualised
input and automatically record cellular responses over days with fine time resolution.
However, methods to infer parameters of stochastic kinetic models from single-cell
longitudinal data have generally been developed under the assumption that experimental
data is sparse and that responses of cells to at most a few different input perturbations
can be observed. Here, we investigate and compare different approaches for calculating
parameter likelihoods of single-cell longitudinal data based on approximations
of the chemical master equation (CME) with a particular focus on coupling the
linear noise approximation (LNA) or moment closure methods to a Kalman filter.
We show that, as long as cells are measured sufficiently frequently, coupling
the LNA to a Kalman filter allows one to accurately approximate likelihoods and
to infer model parameters from data even in cases where the LNA provides poor
approximations of the CME. Furthermore, the computational cost of filtering-based
iterative likelihood evaluation scales advantageously in the number of measurement
times and different input perturbations and is thus ideally suited for data obtained
from modern experimental platforms. To demonstrate the practical usefulness of
these results, we perform an experiment in which single cells, equipped with an
optogenetic gene expression system, are exposed to various different light-input
sequences and measured at several hundred time points and use parameter inference
based on iterative likelihood evaluation to parameterise a stochastic model of
the system.
acknowledgement: We thank Virgile Andreani for useful discussions about the model
and parameter inference. We thank Johan Paulsson and Jeffrey J Tabor for kind gifts
of plasmids. R was supported by the ANR grant CyberCircuits (ANR-18-CE91-0002).
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision
to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
article_number: e1009950
article_processing_charge: No
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Anđela
full_name: Davidović, Anđela
last_name: Davidović
- first_name: Remy P
full_name: Chait, Remy P
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last_name: Chait
orcid: 0000-0003-0876-3187
- first_name: Gregory
full_name: Batt, Gregory
last_name: Batt
- first_name: Jakob
full_name: Ruess, Jakob
id: 4A245D00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
last_name: Ruess
orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282
citation:
ama: Davidović A, Chait RP, Batt G, Ruess J. Parameter inference for stochastic
biochemical models from perturbation experiments parallelised at the single cell
level. PLoS Computational Biology. 2022;18(3). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009950
apa: Davidović, A., Chait, R. P., Batt, G., & Ruess, J. (2022). Parameter inference
for stochastic biochemical models from perturbation experiments parallelised at
the single cell level. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009950
chicago: Davidović, Anđela, Remy P Chait, Gregory Batt, and Jakob Ruess. “Parameter
Inference for Stochastic Biochemical Models from Perturbation Experiments Parallelised
at the Single Cell Level.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of
Science, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009950.
ieee: A. Davidović, R. P. Chait, G. Batt, and J. Ruess, “Parameter inference for
stochastic biochemical models from perturbation experiments parallelised at the
single cell level,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 18, no. 3. Public
Library of Science, 2022.
ista: Davidović A, Chait RP, Batt G, Ruess J. 2022. Parameter inference for stochastic
biochemical models from perturbation experiments parallelised at the single cell
level. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(3), e1009950.
mla: Davidović, Anđela, et al. “Parameter Inference for Stochastic Biochemical Models
from Perturbation Experiments Parallelised at the Single Cell Level.” PLoS
Computational Biology, vol. 18, no. 3, e1009950, Public Library of Science,
2022, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009950.
short: A. Davidović, R.P. Chait, G. Batt, J. Ruess, PLoS Computational Biology 18
(2022).
date_created: 2022-04-03T22:01:42Z
date_published: 2022-03-18T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-09T14:29:53Z
day: '18'
ddc:
- '570'
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department:
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doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009950
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