Instruct: Identify the main category of Biorxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Moran Process Version of the Tug-of-War Model: Complex Behavior Revealed by Mathematical Analysis and Simulation Studies AO_SCPLOWBSTRACTC_SCPLOWIn a series of publications McFarland and co-authors introduced the tug-of-war model of evolution of cancer cell populations. The model is explaining the joint effect of rare advantageous and frequent slightly deleterious mutations, which may be identifiable with driver and passenger mutations in cancer. In this paper, we put the Tug-of-War model in the framework of a denumerable-type Moran process and use mathematics and simulations to understand its behavior. The model is associated with a time-continuous Markov Chain (MC), with a generator that can be split into a sum of the drift and selection process part and of the mutation process part. Operator semigroup theory is then employed to prove that the MC does not explode, as well as to characterize a strong-drift limit version of the MC which displays "instant fixation" effect, which was an assumption in the original McFarlands model. Mathematical results are fully confirmed by simulations of the complete and limit versions. They also visualize complex stochastic transients and genealogies of clones arising in the model.
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The categories of this paper are: bioinformatics
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The categories of this paper are: cancer
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The categories of this paper are: molecular
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The categories of this paper are: synthetic
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The categories of this paper are: communication
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The categories of this paper are: animal
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The categories of this paper are: and
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The categories of this paper are: plant
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The categories of this paper are: ecology
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The categories of this paper are: pathology
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The categories of this paper are: developmental
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The categories of this paper are: education
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The categories of this paper are: behavior
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The categories of this paper are: microbiology
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The categories of this paper are: physiology
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The categories of this paper are: systems