Mathematics – Commutative Algebra
Scientific paper
2006-06-08
Communications in Computer Algebra 40 (3): 65-96, 2006.
Mathematics
Commutative Algebra
11 pages, 4 figures. Minor clarifying revisions including typos, a reference, and title change. To appear in Communications in
Scientific paper
A contemporary and exciting application of Groebner bases is their use in computational biology, particularly in the reverse engineering of gene regulatory networks from experimental data. In this setting, the data are typically limited to tens of points, while the number of genes or variables is potentially in the thousands. As such data sets vastly underdetermine the biological network, many models may fit the same data and reverse engineering programs often require the use of methods for choosing parsimonious models. Grobner bases have recently been employed as a selection tool for polynomial dynamical systems that are characterized by maps in a vector space over a finite field. While there are numerous existing algorithms to compute Groebner bases, to date none has been specifically designed to cope with large numbers of variables and few distinct data points. In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing Grobner bases of zero-dimensional ideals that is optimized for the case when the number m of points is much smaller than the number n of indeterminates. The algorithm identifies those variables that are essential, that is, in the support of the standard monomials associated to a polynomial ideal, and computes the relations in the Groebner bases in terms of these variables. When n is much larger than m, the complexity is dominated by nm^3. The algorithm has been implemented and tested in the computer algebra system Macaulay 2. We provide a comparison of its performance to the Buchberger-Moeller algorithm, as built into the system.
Just Winfried
Stigler Brandilyn
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