Abstract
Gene regulation is an important fundamental biological process. The regulation of gene expression is managed through a variety of methods including epigentic processes (e.g., DNA methylation). Understanding the role of epigenetic changes in gene expression is a fundamental question of molecular biology. Predictions of gene expression values from epigenetic data have tremendous research and clinical potential. Dynamical systems can be used to generate a model to predict gene expression using epigenetic data and a gene regulatory network (GRN). Here we present a novel stochastic dynamical systems model that predicts gene expression levels from methylation data of genes in a given GRN.
Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
Footnotes
↵‡ E-mail: brunner.james{at}mayo.edu, www.mayo.edu, E-mail: kord.kober{at}ucsf.edu, www.ucsf.edu