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Spatial transcriptomics (ST) is an emerging technology that enables researchers to investigate the molecular relationships underlying tissue morphology. However, acquiring ST data remains prohibitively expensive, and traditional fixed-grid…
Although bulk transcriptomic analyses have significantly contributed to an enhanced comprehension of multifaceted diseases, their exploration capacity is impeded by the heterogeneous compositions of biological samples. Indeed, by averaging…
In modern applications such as ECG monitoring, neuroimaging, wearable sensing, and industrial equipment diagnostics, complex and continuously structured data are ubiquitous, presenting both challenges and opportunities for functional data…
Real-world graphs or networks are usually heterogeneous, involving multiple types of nodes and relationships. Heterogeneous graph neural networks (HGNNs) can effectively handle these diverse nodes and edges, capturing heterogeneous…
Interpreting gene clusters from RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) remains challenging, especially in antimicrobial resistance studies where mechanistic insight is important for hypothesis generation. Existing pathway enrichment methods can summarize…
High throughput sequencing of RNA (RNA-Seq) can provide us with millions of short fragments of RNA transcripts from a sample. How to better recover the original RNA transcripts from those fragments (RNA-Seq assembly) is still a difficult…
Generating high-fidelity and biologically plausible synthetic single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data, especially with conditional control, is challenging due to its high dimensionality, sparsity, and complex biological variations.…
Single-cell technologies are revolutionizing the entire field of biology. The large volumes of data generated by single-cell technologies are high-dimensional, sparse, heterogeneous, and have complicated dependency structures, making…
Deep learning, a rebranding of deep neural network research works, has achieved a remarkable success in recent years. With multiple hidden layers, deep learning models aim at computing the hierarchical feature representations of the…
Despite the breakthroughs in biomarker discovery facilitated by differential gene analysis, challenges remain, particularly at the single-cell level. Traditional methodologies heavily rely on user-supplied cell annotations, focusing on…
Understanding the biological mechanisms of disease is crucial for medicine, and in particular, for drug discovery. AI-powered analysis of genome-scale biological data holds great potential in this regard. The increasing availability of…
The discovery of nucleic acids and the structure of DNA have brought considerable advances in the understanding of life. The development of next-generation sequencing technologies has led to a large-scale generation of data, for which…
RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has been rapidly adopted for the profiling of transcriptomes in many areas of biology, including studies into gene regulation, development and disease. Of particular interest is the discovery of differentially…
We propose a probabilistic model for interpreting gene expression levels that are observed through single-cell RNA sequencing. In the model, each cell has a low-dimensional latent representation. Additional latent variables account for…
Assessing lesions and tracking their progression over time in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for diagnosing and monitoring multiple sclerosis (MS). Machine learning models have shown promise in automating the segmentation…
Sequencing by Emergence (SEQE) is a new single-molecule nucleic acid (DNA/RNA) sequencing technology that estimates sequence as an emergent property of the binding and localization of a repertoire of short oligonucleotide probes. SEQE…
Applying machine learning to biological sequences - DNA, RNA and protein - has enormous potential to advance human health, environmental sustainability, and fundamental biological understanding. However, many existing machine learning…
Deconvolution of cell mixtures in "bulk" transcriptomic samples from homogenate human tissue is important for understanding the pathologies of diseases. However, several experimental and computational challenges remain in developing and…
Spiking neural networks (SNNs) take inspiration from the brain to enable energy-efficient computations. Since the advent of Transformers, SNNs have struggled to compete with artificial networks on modern sequential tasks, as they inherit…