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Modelling and identification methods for the a priori selection of network structures compatible with biological knowledge and experimental data are necessary to make the identification problem tractable.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We propose a differential equation modelling framework where the regulatory interactions among genes are expressed in terms of unate functions, a class of gene activation rules commonly encountered in Boolean network modelling. We establish analytical properties of the models in the class and exploit them to devise a two-step procedure for gene network reconstruction from product concentration and synthesis rate time series. The first step isolates a family of model structures compatible with the data from a set of most relevant biological hypotheses. The second step explores this family and returns a pool of best fitting models along with estimates of their parameters. The method is tested on a simulated network and compared with state-of-the-art network inference methods on the benchmark synthetic network IRMA.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0eugenio.cinquemani@inria.fr<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq120","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,3,21]],"date-time":"2010-03-21T00:13:02Z","timestamp":1269130382000},"page":"1239-1245","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":25,"title":["Identification of genetic network dynamics with unate structure"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Riccardo","family":"Porreca","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institut f\u00fcr Automatik, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 8092 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, 2 INRIA Grenoble-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, Montbonnot, 38334 Saint-Ismier Cedex, France and 3 Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eugenio","family":"Cinquemani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institut f\u00fcr Automatik, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 8092 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, 2 INRIA Grenoble-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, Montbonnot, 38334 Saint-Ismier Cedex, France and 3 Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Lygeros","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institut f\u00fcr Automatik, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 8092 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, 2 INRIA Grenoble-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, Montbonnot, 38334 Saint-Ismier Cedex, France and 3 Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Giancarlo","family":"Ferrari-Trecate","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Institut f\u00fcr Automatik, ETH Z\u00fcrich, 8092 Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland, 2 INRIA Grenoble-Rh\u00f4ne-Alpes, Montbonnot, 38334 Saint-Ismier Cedex, France and 3 Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,3,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012508162364100_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"331","DOI":"10.1089\/106652700750050817","article-title":"Algorithms for identifying Boolean networks and related biological networks based on matrix multiplication and fingerprint function","volume":"7","author":"Akutsu","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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