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The partitioning of small molecules in cell membranes---a key parameter for pharmaceutical applications---typically relies on experimentally-available bulk partitioning coefficients. Computer simulations provide a structural resolution of…
Chemical mapping is a widespread technique for structural analysis of nucleic acids in which a molecule's reactivity to different probes is quantified at single-nucleotide resolution and used to constrain structural modeling. This…
Probabilistic inference provides a language for describing how organisms may learn from and adapt to their environment. The computations needed to implement probabilistic inference often require specific representations, akin to having the…
Biological cells sense and respond to mechanical forces, but how such a mechanosensing proccess takes place in a nonlinear inhomogeneous fibrous matrix remains unknown. We show that cells in a fibrous matrix induce deformation fields that…
Roughly half of a cells proteins are located at or near the plasma membrane. In this restricted space the cell senses its environment, signals to its neighbors and ex-changes cargo through exo- and endocytotic mechanisms. Ligands bind to…
We propose a general framework for a collaborative machine learning system to assist bioscience researchers with the task of labeling specific cell identities from microscopic still or video imaging. The distinguishing features of this…
Animals and robots navigate through environments by building and refining maps of space. These maps enable functions including navigation back to home, planning, search and foraging. Here, we use observations from neuroscience, specifically…
Probe-level microarray data are usually stored in matrices, where the row and column correspond to array and probe, respectively. Scientists routinely summarize each array by a single index as the expression level of each probe set (gene).…