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Investigating the Impact of Measurement Variance on Gene Circuit Model Parameterization

Spartalis, T. R.; Tang, W.; Tang, X.

2025-04-02 synthetic biology
10.1101/2025.04.02.646175 bioRxiv
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Ordinary differential equation (ODE)-based modeling is a powerful tool in the design and characterization of synthetic gene circuits. Despite its popularity, identifying the model parameters based off experimental measurement is a nontrivial task. In this study, we leverage cell-free experimental measurement of two RNA-based regulators to investigate the impact and the incorporation of measurement variance in the pair-wise squared error objective function used for ODE-model parameterization. Our findings suggest that while unweighted objective function and weighting by the inverse variance can provide reasonably accurate parameter estimation, weighing the objective function with the inverse stabilized variance could further improve the parameterization, by also capturing the system variance with a mitigated prediction variance.

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