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Bounds on the Average Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions

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  • Johannes Georg Klotz
  • Reinhard Heckel
  • Steffen Schober

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Nested canalizing Boolean functions (NCF) play an important role in biologically motivated regulatory networks and in signal processing, in particular describing stack filters. It has been conjectured that NCFs have a stabilizing effect on the network dynamics. It is well known that the average sensitivity plays a central role for the stability of (random) Boolean networks. Here we provide a tight upper bound on the average sensitivity of NCFs as a function of the number of relevant input variables. As conjectured in literature this bound is smaller than . This shows that a large number of functions appearing in biological networks belong to a class that has low average sensitivity, which is even close to a tight lower bound.

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  • Johannes Georg Klotz & Reinhard Heckel & Steffen Schober, 2013. "Bounds on the Average Sensitivity of Nested Canalizing Functions," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(5), pages 1-8, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0064371
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064371
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