HIV 2-LTR experiment design optimization

PLoS One. 2018 Nov 8;13(11):e0206700. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206700. eCollection 2018.

Abstract

Clinical trials are necessary in order to develop treatments for diseases; however, they can often be costly, time consuming, and demanding to the patients. This paper summarizes several common methods used for optimal design that can be used to address these issues. In addition, we introduce a novel method for optimizing experiment designs applied to HIV 2-LTR clinical trials. Our method employs Bayesian techniques to optimize the experiment outcome by maximizing the Expected Kullback-Leibler Divergence (EKLD) between the a priori knowledge of system parameters before the experiment and the a posteriori knowledge of the system parameters after the experiment. We show that our method is robust and performs equally well if not better than traditional optimal experiment design techniques.

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Bayes Theorem
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / methods
  • Clinical Trials as Topic / statistics & numerical data
  • Computer Simulation
  • HIV / drug effects*
  • HIV / genetics*
  • HIV / physiology
  • HIV Infections / therapy
  • HIV Infections / virology
  • HIV Long Terminal Repeat / drug effects*
  • HIV Long Terminal Repeat / genetics*
  • HIV Long Terminal Repeat / physiology
  • Humans
  • Immunotherapy, Adoptive
  • Markov Chains
  • Models, Biological
  • Models, Statistical
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • RNA, Viral / biosynthesis
  • RNA, Viral / genetics
  • Research Design
  • Virus Replication / drug effects
  • Virus Replication / genetics

Substances

  • RNA, Viral