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Identifying key driver genes governing biological processes such as development and disease progression remains a challenge. While existing methods can reconstruct cellular trajectories or infer static gene regulatory networks (GRNs), they…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-26 Jiaxin Li , Shanjun Mao

Gene regulatory network inference (GRNI) aims to discover how genes causally regulate each other from gene expression data. It is well-known that statistical dependencies in observed data do not necessarily imply causation, as spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Gongxu Luo , Haoyue Dai , Loka Li , Chengqian Gao , Boyang Sun , Kun Zhang

In this work, we present a quantum circuit model for inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs). The model is based on the idea of using qubit-qubit entanglement to simulate interactions between genes. We provide preliminary results that…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Cristhian Roman-Vicharra , James J. Cai

Inferring gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data is a complex challenge that requires capturing the intricate relationships between genes and their regulatory interactions. In this study, we tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Sindhura Kommu , Yizhi Wang , Yue Wang , Xuan Wang

Gene expression-based heterogeneity analysis has been extensively conducted. In recent studies, it has been shown that network-based analysis, which takes a system perspective and accommodates the interconnections among genes, can be more…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-09 Rong Li , Qingzhao Zhang , Shuangge Ma

Reconstructing the causal network in a complex dynamical system plays a crucial role in many applications, from sub-cellular biology to economic systems. Here we focus on inferring gene regulation networks (GRNs) from perturbation or gene…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-21 Hoi-To Wai , Anna Scaglione , Uzi Harush , Baruch Barzel , Amir Leshem

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) control cellular function and decision making during tissue development and homeostasis. Mathematical tools based on dynamical systems theory are often used to model these networks, but the size and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-16 Edgar Herrera-Delgado , Ruben Perez-Carrasco , James Briscoe , Peter Sollich

Understanding gene regulation is a fundamental step towards understanding of how cells function and respond to environmental cues and perturbations. An important step in this direction is to infer the transcription factor-gene regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-25 Yijie Wang , Dong-Yeon Cho , Hangnoh Lee , Justin Fear , Brian Oliver , Teresa M Przytycka

Predicting genetic perturbations enables the identification of potentially crucial genes prior to wet-lab experiments, significantly improving overall experimental efficiency. Since genes are the foundation of cellular life, building gene…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-09 Changxi Chi , Jun Xia , Jingbo Zhou , Jiabei Cheng , Chang Yu , Stan Z. Li

Inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) based on experimental data is a challenging task in bioinformatics. In this paper, we present a bi-objective minimization model (BoMM) for inference of GRNs, where one objective is the fitting…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-12-17 Yu Chen , Xiufen Zou

Predicting the responses of a cell under perturbations may bring important benefits to drug discovery and personalized therapeutics. In this work, we propose a novel graph variational Bayesian causal inference framework to predict a cell's…

One of the focus areas of modern scientific research is to reveal mysteries related to genes and their interactions. The dynamic interactions between genes can be encoded into a gene regulatory network (GRN), which can be used to gain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-16 Atte Aalto , Lauri Viitasaari , Pauliina Ilmonen , Laurent Mombaerts , Jorge Goncalves

Despite theoretical advantages, causal methods for Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) inference from single-cell RNA-seq data consistently fail to match or outperform correlation-based baselines in many realistic benchmarks, a persistent puzzle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Miguel Fernandez-de-Retana , Ruben Sanchez-Corcuera , Unai Zulaika , Aritz Bilbao-Jayo , Aitor Almeida

Regulatory networks describe the interactions between molecular or cellular regulators, like transcription factors and genes in gene regulatory networks, kinases and their receptors in signalling networks, or neurons in neural networks. A…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-29 Niklas Bonacker , Johannes Berg

The Weak form Estimation of Nonlinear Dynamics (WENDy) method is a recently proposed class of parameter estimation algorithms that exhibits notable noise robustness and computational efficiency. This work examines the coverage and bias…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Abhi Chawla , David M. Bortz , Vanja Dukic

Inferring the structure of gene regulatory networks (GRN) from gene expression data has many applications, from the elucidation of complex biological processes to the identification of potential drug targets. It is however a notoriously…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-05-08 Anne-Claire Haury , Fantine Mordelet , Paola Vera-Licona , Jean-Philippe Vert

Genetic Regulatory Networks (GRNs) plays a vital role in the understanding of complex biological processes. Modeling GRNs is significantly important in order to reveal fundamental cellular processes, examine gene functions and understanding…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Khalid Raza , Rafat Parveen

The Weak-form Estimation of Non-linear Dynamics (WENDy) framework is a recently developed approach for parameter estimation and inference of systems of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Prior work demonstrated WENDy to be robust,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Nic Rummel , Daniel A. Messenger , Stephen Becker , Vanja Dukic , David M. Bortz

Unraveling the complexities of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is crucial for understanding cellular processes and disease mechanisms. Traditional computational methods often struggle with the dynamic nature of these networks. This study…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Hakan T. Otal , Abdulhamit Subasi , Furkan Kurt , M. Abdullah Canbaz , Yasin Uzun

Unraveling the co-expression of genes across studies enhances the understanding of cellular processes. Inferring gene co-expression networks from transcriptome data presents many challenges, including spurious gene correlations, sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-01 Teodora Pandeva , Martijs Jonker , Leendert Hamoen , Joris Mooij , Patrick Forré