3 papers
math.OC2026
On structural contraction of biological interaction networks
M. Ali Al-Radhawi, David Angeli, Eduardo Sontag
Biological networks are customarily described as structurally robust. This means that they often function extremely well under large forms of perturbations affecting both the conce…
math.DS2025
Interplay between Contractivity and Monotonicity for Reaction Networks
Alon Duvall, M. Ali Al-Radhawi, Dhruv D. Jatkar +1
We establish a new relationship between monotonicity and contractivity and use this connection to describe a new general class of weakly contractive reaction networks. The new clas…
q-bio.MN2024
Competition for binding targets results in paradoxical effects for simultaneous activator and repressor action -- Extended Version
M. Ali Al-Radhawi, Krishna Manoj, Dhruv D. Jatkar +3
In the context of epigenetic transformations in cancer metastasis, a puzzling effect was recently discovered, in which the elimination (knock-out) of an activating regulatory eleme…