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Gene regulation is an important fundamental biological process. The regulation of gene expression is managed through a variety of methods including epigenetic processes (e.g., DNA methylation). Understanding the role of epigenetic changes…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-01 James Brunner , Jacob Kim , Timothy Downing , Eric Mjolsness , Kord M. Kober

Over the past twenty years, artificial Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) have shown their capacity to solve real-world problems in various domains such as agent control, signal processing and artificial life experiments. They have also…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Dennis G Wilson , Kyle Harrington , Sylvain Cussat-Blanc , Hervé Luga

Gene regulatory network (GRN) plays a central role in system biology and genomics. It provides a promising way to model and study complex biological processes. Several computational methods have been developed for the construction and…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-29 Yanying Wu

One of the grand challenges of cell biology is inferring the gene regulatory network (GRN) which describes interactions between genes and their products that control gene expression and cellular function. We can treat this as a causal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Lazar Atanackovic , Alexander Tong , Bo Wang , Leo J. Lee , Yoshua Bengio , Jason Hartford

GNN-based methods have achieved excellent results as a mainstream task in drug response prediction tasks in recent years. Traditional GNN methods use only the atoms in a drug molecule as nodes to obtain the representation of the molecular…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-12 Kun Li , Jia Wu , Bo Du , Sergey V. Petoukhov , Huiting Xu , Zheman Xiao , Wenbin Hu

We introduce a novel gene regulatory network (GRN) inference method that integrates optimal transport (OT) with a deep-learning structural inference model. Advances in next-generation sequencing enable detailed yet destructive gene…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Tsz Pan Tong , Aoran Wang , George Panagopoulos , Jun Pang

The inference of gene regulatory networks from high throughput gene expression data is one of the major challenges in systems biology. This paper aims at analysing and comparing two different algorithmic approaches. The first approach uses…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-12-05 A. Braunstein , A. Pagnani , M. Weigt , R. Zecchina

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

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

Inferencing Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from gene expression data is a pivotal challenge in systems biology, and several innovative computational methods have been introduced. However, most of these studies have not considered the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-10 Jiaqi Xiong , Nan Yin , Shiyang Liang , Haoyang Li , Yingxu Wang , Duo Ai , Fang Pan , Jingjie Wang

Cancer disease occurs because of a disorder in the cellular regulatory mechanism, Which causes cellular malformation. The genes that start the malformation are called Cancer driver genes (CDGs) . Numerous computational methods have been…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-16 Mostafa Akhavan Safar , Babak Teimourpour , Mehrdad Kargari

Gene regulatory network (GRN) modeling is a well-established theoretical framework for the study of cell-fate specification during developmental processes. Recently, dynamical models of GRNs have been taken as a basis for formalizing the…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2015-10-15 Jose Davila-Velderrain , Luis Juarez-Ramiro , Juan C. Martinez-Garcia , Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla

In many organisms the expression levels of each gene are controlled by the activation levels of known "Transcription Factors" (TF). A problem of considerable interest is that of estimating the "Transcription Regulation Networks" (TRN)…

Applications · Statistics 2010-11-09 Gareth M. James , Chiara Sabatti , Nengfeng Zhou , Ji Zhu

Cellular response to environmental and internal signals can be modeled by dynamical gene regulatory networks (GRN). In the literature, three main classes of gene network models can be distinguished: (i) non-quantitative (or data-based)…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-08 Nicolas Champagnat , Rodolphe Loubaton , Laurent Vallat , Pierre Vallois

In the postgenome era many efforts have been dedicated to systematically elucidate the complex web of interacting genes and proteins. These efforts include experimental and computational methods. Microarray technology offers an opportunity…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-08-04 L. Diambra

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…

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

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

Understanding the complex and stochastic nature of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) remains a central challenge in systems biology. Existing modeling paradigms often struggle to effectively capture the intricate, multi-factor regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-20 Yiyang Jia , Zheng Wei , Zheng Yang , Guohong Peng