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We introduce Spectral Guidance, a framework for controlling diffusion models by leveraging the intrinsic geometry of the generative process. As data is progressively corrupted by noise, only a small number of features remain informative for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong

Signaling pathways serve to communicate information about extracellular conditions into the cell, to both the nucleus and cytoplasmic processes to control cell responses. Genetic mutations in signaling network components are frequently…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-15 Michael A. Kochen , Steven S. Andrews , H. Steven Wiley , Song Feng , Herbert M. Sauro

The evolutionary origins of structural features in reconstructed gene-regulatory networks (GRNs) remain poorly understood, especially given the random aspects of gene expression. Here, we extend a classical model of GRN evolution to allow a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-30 Leonardo Ivan Estrella Dzib , James Holehouse

Eukaryotic gene regulation is based on stochastic yet controlled promoter switching, during which genes transition between transcriptionally active and inactive states. Despite the molecular complexity of this process, recent studies reveal…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-17 Benjamin Zoller , Alexis Bénichou , Thomas Gregor , Gašper Tkačik

The concept of positional information is central to our understanding of how cells in a multicellular structure determine their developmental fates. Nevertheless, positional information has neither been defined mathematically nor quantified…

Biological Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Gašper Tkačik , Julien O Dubuis , Mariela D Petkova , Thomas Gregor

Signal transduction networks can form highly interconnected systems within cells due to network crosstalk, the sharing of input signals between multiple downstream responses. To better understand the evolutionary design principles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Ammar Tareen , Ned S. Wingreen , Ranjan Mukhopadhyay

Networks of coupled dynamical systems provide a powerful way to model systems with enormously complex dynamics, such as the human brain. Control of synchronization in such networked systems has far reaching applications in many domains,…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-03-21 Julien Gout , Markus Quade , Kamran Shafi , Robert K. Niven , Markus Abel

Synchronous neural activity can improve neural processing and is believed to mediate neuronal interaction by providing temporal windows during which information is more easily transferred. We demonstrate a pulse gating mechanism in a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2014-10-07 Andrew T. Sornborger , Louis Tao

Co-localization of networks of genes in the nucleus is thought to play an important role in determining gene expression patterns. Based upon experimental data, we built a dynamical model to test whether pure diffusion could account for the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2012-03-06 Jing Kang , Bing Xu , Ye Yao , Wei Lin , Conor Hennessy , Peter Fraser , Jianfeng Feng

Gene regulatory networks typically have low in-degrees, whereby any given gene is regulated by few of the genes in the network. They also tend to have broad distributions for the out-degree. What mechanisms might be responsible for these…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2013-05-29 Z. Burda , A. Krzywicki , O. C. Martin , M. Zagorski

Social movements, neurons in the brain or even industrial suppliers are best described by agents evolving on networks with basic interaction rules. In these real systems, the connectivity between agents corresponds to the a critical state…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Curty

In recent years it is increasingly being recognized that biochemical signals are not necessarily constant in time and that the temporal dynamics of a signal can be the information carrier. Moreover, it is now well established that…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-17 Wiet de Ronde , Pieter Rein ten Wolde

This paper proposes a control theoretic framework to model and analyze the self-organized pattern formation of molecular concentrations in biomolecular communication networks, emerging applications in synthetic biology. In biomolecular…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-08 Yutaka Hori , Hiroki Miyazako , Soichiro Kumagai , Shinji Hara

Regulatory networks consist of interacting molecules with a high degree of mutual chemical specificity. How can these molecules evolve when their function depends on maintenance of interactions with cognate partners and simultaneous…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-01 Tamar Friedlander , Roshan Prizak , Nicholas H. Barton , Gašper Tkačik

Self-organization through adaptive rewiring of random neural networks generates brain-like topologies comprising modular small-world structures with rich club effects, merely as the product of optimizing the network topology. In the nervous…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-04 Jia Li , Ilias Rentzeperis , Cees van Leeuwen

To attain the targeted data rates of next generation cellular networks requires dense deployment of small cells in addition to macro cells which provide wide coverage. Dynamic radio resource management is crucial to the success of such…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Fei Teng , Dongning Guo

Cellular behaviors such as migration, division, and differentiation rely on precise timing, and yet the molecular events that govern these behaviors are highly stochastic. We investigate regulatory strategies that decrease the timing noise…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Shivam Gupta , Sean Fancher , Hendrik C. Korswagen , Andrew Mugler

The biological processes of cellular decision making and differentiation involve a plethora of signalling pathways and gene regulatory circuits. These networks, in their turn, exhibit a multitude of motifs playing crucial parts in…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-02 Gustavo Rodrigues Ferreira , Helder Imoto Nakaya , Luciano da Fontoura Costa

We study the asymptotic behavior of multiscale stochastic spatial gene networks. Multiscaling takes into account the difference of abundance between molecules , and captures the dynamic of rare species at a mesoscopic level. We introduce an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Arnaud Debussche , Mac Jugal Nguepedja Nankep