Complexity of the BN and the PBN Models of GRNs and Mappings for Complexity Reduction

One can think of a Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) as a network of relations among strands of DNA (genes) and the regulatory activities associated with those genes (Dougherty and Braga-Neto, 2006). This general definition allows for many mathematical (usually dynamical) systems to be called GRNs. The goodness of each such model is evaluated using several important criteria: the level of description of the biochemical reactions involved, complexity of the model, model parameter estimation, and the predictive power of the model. There have been many attempts to model the structure and dynamical behavior of GRNs, ranging from deterministic with discrete time space to fully stochastic with continuous time abStract