Identification of control targets in Boolean molecular network models via computational algebra

D Murrugarra, A Veliz-Cuba, B Aguilar… - BMC systems …, 2016 - Springer
Background Many problems in biomedicine and other areas of the life sciences can be
characterized as control problems, with the goal of finding strategies to change a disease or …

Formal modelling of toll like receptor 4 and JAK/STAT signalling pathways: insight into the roles of SOCS-1, interferon-β and proinflammatory cytokines in sepsis

RZ Paracha, J Ahmad, A Ali, R Hussain, U Niazi… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Sepsis is one of the major causes of human morbidity and results in a considerable number
of deaths each year. Lipopolysaccharide-induced sepsis has been associated with TLR4 …

Formal reasoning about systems biology using theorem proving

A Rashid, O Hasan, U Siddique, S Tahar - Plos one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
System biology provides the basis to understand the behavioral properties of complex
biological organisms at different levels of abstraction. Traditionally, analysing systems …

On the modelling and analysis of the regulatory network of dengue virus pathogenesis and clearance

B Aslam, J Ahmad, A Ali, RZ Paracha… - … Biology and Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Dengue virus can ignite both protective and pathogenic responses in human. The
pathogenesis is related with modified functioning of our immune system during infection …

Modelling and analysis of the feeding regimen induced entrainment of hepatocyte circadian oscillators using petri nets

SHK Tareen, J Ahmad - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Circadian rhythms are certain periodic behaviours exhibited by living organism at different
levels, including cellular and system-wide scales. Recent studies have found that the …

Formal modeling and analysis of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway: role of O-linked N-acetylglucosamine transferase in oncogenesis and cancer progression

MT Saeed, J Ahmad, S Kanwal, AN Holowatyj… - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
The alteration of glucose metabolism, through increased uptake of glucose and glutamine
addiction, is essential to cancer cell growth and invasion. Increased flux of glucose through …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics simulations of hypoxia inducible factor-1 regulatory network in cancer using formal verification techniques

HMF Azhar, MT Saeed, I Jabeen - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) regulates cell growth, protein translation, metabolic
pathways and therefore, has been advocated as a promising biological target for the …

Structural evaluation of BTK and PKCδ mediated phosphorylation of MAL at positions Tyr86 and Tyr106

RZ Paracha, A Ali, J Ahmad, R Hussain, U Niazi… - … biology and chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
A number of diseases including sepsis, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular
diseases and hyperinflammatory immune disorders have been associated with Toll like …

Logical modelling reveals the PDC-PDK interaction as the regulatory switch driving metabolic flexibility at the cellular level

SHK Tareen, M Kutmon, ICW Arts, TM de Kok… - Genes & Nutrition, 2019 - Springer
Background Metabolic flexibility is the ability of an organism to switch between substrates for
energy metabolism, in response to the changing nutritional state and needs of the organism …

Parameter estimation of qualitative biological regulatory networks on high performance computing hardware

MT Saeed, J Ahmad, J Baumbach, J Pauling… - BMC systems …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Biological Regulatory Networks (BRNs) are responsible for
developmental and maintenance related functions in organisms. These functions are …