Analyzing Data for Systems Biology: Working at the Intersection of Thermodynamics and Data Analytics

Conference · Wed Aug 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012

OSTI ID:1053378

Cannon, William R; Baxter, Douglas J

Many challenges in systems biology have to do with analyzing data within the framework of molecular phenomena and cellular pathways. How does this relate to thermodynamics that we know govern the behavior of molecules? Making progress in relating data analysis to thermodynamics is essential in systems biology if we are to build predictive models that enable the field of synthetic biology. This report discusses work at the crossroads of thermodynamics and data analysis, and demonstrates that statistical mechanical free energy is a multinomial log likelihood. Applications to systems biology are presented.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1053378
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-80570; 30994; KJ0403000
• Resource Relation: Conference: Proceedings of SciDAC 2011, July 10-14, 2011. Denver, Colorado
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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