[HTML][HTML] Methods of quantifying interactions among populations using Lotka-Volterra models

JD Davis, DV Olivença, SP Brown… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The Lotka-Volterra (LV) model was introduced in the early 20th Century to describe predator-prey
systems. Since then, the model has been expanded to capture the dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping the evidence of the effects of environmental factors on the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the non-built environment: Protocol for a systematic …

…, D Messina, G Nichols, DV Olivença… - Environment …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Human, animal, and environmental health are increasingly threatened by the
emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance. Inappropriate use of antibiotic treatments …

Mathematical models of cystic fibrosis as a systemic disease

DV Olivença, JD Davis, CM Kumbale… - WIREs Mechanisms …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is widely known as a disease of the lung, even though it is in truth a
systemic disease, whose symptoms typically manifest in gastrointestinal dysfunction first. CF …

Inference and validation of the structure of Lotka-Volterra models

EO Voit, JD Davis, DV Olivença - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
For close to a century, Lotka-Volterra (LV) models have been used to investigate interactions
among populations of different species. For a few species, these investigations are …

[HTML][HTML] A mathematical model of the phosphoinositide pathway

DV Olivença, I Uliyakina, LL Fonseca, MD Amaral… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Phosphoinositides are signalling lipids that constitute a complex network regulating many
cellular processes. We propose a computational model that accounts for all species of …

Polycraft World AI Lab (PAL): An Extensible Platform for Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Agents

…, RJ Steininger, D Narayanan, DV Olivença… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
As artificial intelligence research advances, the platforms used to evaluate AI agents need
to adapt and grow to continue to challenge them. We present the Polycraft World AI Lab (PAL)…

[HTML][HTML] Discrete biochemical systems theory

EO Voit, DV Olivença - Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Almost every biomedical systems analysis requires early decisions regarding the choice of
the most suitable representations to be used. De facto the most prevalent choice is a system …

Thickness of the airway surface liquid layer in the lung is affected in cystic fibrosis by compromised synergistic regulation of the ENaC ion channel

DV Olivença, LL Fonseca… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The lung epithelium is lined with a layer of airway surface liquid (ASL) that is crucial for
healthy lung function. ASL thickness is controlled by two ion channels: epithelium sodium …

[HTML][HTML] Inference of dynamic interaction networks: A comparison between Lotka-Volterra and multivariate autoregressive models

DV Olivença, JD Davis, EO Voit - Frontiers in Bioinformatics, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Networks are ubiquitous throughout biology, spanning the entire range from molecules to
food webs and global environmental systems. Yet, despite substantial efforts by the scientific …

Comparison between Lotka-Volterra and multivariate autoregressive models of ecological interaction systems

DV Olivença, JD Davis, EO Voit - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Lotka-Volterra (LV) and Multivariate Autoregressive (MAR) models are computational
frameworks with different mathematical structures that have both been proposed for the same …