Harmonic analysis of Boolean networks: determinative power and perturbations

@article{Heckel2013HarmonicAO,
  title={Harmonic analysis of Boolean networks: determinative power and perturbations},
  author={Reinhard Heckel and Steffen Schober and Martin Bossert},
  journal={EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology},
  year={2013},
  volume={2013},
  pages={6 - 6}
}
Consider a large Boolean network with a feed forward structure. Given a probability distribution on the inputs, can one find, possibly small, collections of input nodes that determine the states of most other nodes in the network? To answer this question, a notion that quantifies the determinative power of an input over the states of the nodes in the network is needed. We argue that the mutual information (MI) between a given subset of the inputs X={X1,...,Xn} of some node i and its associated… 
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