Reproduce the figures derived from the ODE model described in "Inflammatory Bowel Disease: How Effective Is TNF-α Suppression?" article, published in PLoS One, in 2016, and submit the resulting curated and annotated model to the BioModels database, adhering to their stringent standards.
Below, we described remaining steps before final publication to BioModels standards.
- Strange units (such as weeks instead of seconds or days or grams instead of moles)
- May have to check some of the fixed parameters, in particular decay rates of cell populations
- Typos in equation 8 (should be IL-2 both at numerator and denominator)
- General advise: decompose each chemical process into independant annotations (streamline curation, ensure afterwards that the differential equations are properly written, ..)
- There's a differential equation of M0, as being differentiated into M1 and M2. Yet, from the paper, it is assumed to be a fixed influx. Ensure that it is the case in the global variables.
- Done: Able to reproduce the steady-state equations, up-to a normlisation constant (Table 4)
- ToDo: Parameter estimation, after introducing dysregulations, for each of the four endotypes would require to have the omics profiles for all the 58 patients of the cohorts
- Fig2: Sensititvy analyses: without the code and the random seed, may exhbit sensitive discrepancies
- Fig3: Dysregulated mechanisms: infer back the variations of the parameters would require that the omics expression profiles are left avalaible, which is not the case
Done:
- Names, institutions and mails of the curators
- Names of the macrophages
ToDo:
- Pair T cells and cytokines with their respective ontologies
- Associate each reaction to its paper, when avalaible
- Associate the fixed biological parameters with their paper references.