13th International Conference on Membrane Computing - MTA Sztaki

A case-study on the influence of noise to log-gain principles for flux dynamic
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noisy), we must conclude that further work must be done to modify these loggain
algorithms before they can be applied to data gathered completely from
living cells.
There may, however, be some error present in how we applied noise to the
data. We have very little basis for the decision to use Gaussian noise, and noise
that more closely resembles data that would be collected in vivo would be much
preferable, and may not break the process quite so easily. That said, the choice to
use Gaussian noise was done so that our noisy data would more closely resemble
the noiseless test data the log-gain theory has been shown to work on. As such,
we nd it unlikely that using a more random or disruptive noise would produce
more favorable results from the log-gain process. Thus, we must once again
conclude that the log-gain process be further rened before usage in analyzing
data from living cells.
Acknowledgements. The authors acknowledge support in part from NSF CCF-
1116707 and UEFISCDI PNII-TE 92/2010.
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