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A substantial focus of research in molecular biology are gene regulatory networks: the set of transcription factors and target genes which control the involvement of different biological processes in living cells. Previous statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-08-27 Shane T. Jensen , Guang Chen , Christian J. Stoeckert,

Reconstruction of gene regulatory networks is the process of identifying gene dependency from gene expression profile through some computation techniques. In our human body, though all cells pose similar genetic material but the activation…

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Romain Lopez , Jeffrey Regier , Michael Cole , Michael Jordan , Nir Yosef

Causal discovery in multi-omic datasets is crucial for understanding the bigger picture of gene regulatory mechanisms, but remains challenging due to high dimensionality, differentiation of direct from indirect relationships, and hidden…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-23 Stephen Asiedu , David Watson

Gene expression prediction, which predicts mRNA expression levels from DNA sequences, presents significant challenges. Previous works often focus on extending input sequence length to locate distal enhancers, which may influence target…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zhao Yang , Yi Duan , Jiwei Zhu , Ying Ba , Chuan Cao , Bing Su

From the response to external stimuli to cell division and death, the dynamics of living cells is based on the expression of specific genes at specific times. The decision when to express a gene is implemented by the binding and unbinding…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Johannes Berg

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Romain Lopez , Jeffrey Regier , Michael Cole , Michael Jordan , Nir Yosef

Cellular response to a perturbation is the result of a dynamic system of biological variables linked in a complex network. A major challenge in drug and disease studies is identifying the key factors of a biological network that are…

Applications · Statistics 2014-09-02 Lisa M. Pham , Luis Carvalho , Scott Schaus , Eric D. Kolaczyk

Neuro-encoded expression programming(NEEP) that aims to offer a novel continuous representation of combinatorial encoding for genetic programming methods is proposed in this paper. Genetic programming with linear representation uses…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Aftab Anjum , Fengyang Sun , Lin Wang , Jeff Orchard

In the genome biology research, regulatory genome modeling is an important topic for many regulatory downstream tasks, such as promoter classification, transaction factor binding sites prediction. The core problem is to model how regulatory…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-04 Shentong Mo , Xi Fu , Chenyang Hong , Yizhen Chen , Yuxuan Zheng , Xiangru Tang , Zhiqiang Shen , Eric P Xing , Yanyan Lan

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), it is important to detect the relationship between two sequences or to generate a sequence of tokens given another observed sequence. We call the type of problems on modelling sequence pairs as sequence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Lei Yu

Motivation: Gene regulatory interactions are of fundamental importance to various biological functions and processes. However, only a few previous computational studies have claimed success in revealing genome-wide regulatory landscapes…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-09 Shupeng Gui , Rui Chen , Liang Wu , Ji Liu , Hongyu Miao

Gene regulatory networks play a crucial role in controlling an organism's biological processes, which is why there is significant interest in developing computational methods that are able to extract their structure from high-throughput…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-19 Ioan Gabriel Bucur , Tom van Bussel , Tom Claassen , Tom Heskes

Gene expression analysis aims at identifying the genes able to accurately predict biological parameters like, for example, disease subtyping or progression. While accurate prediction can be achieved by means of many different techniques,…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-09-11 Christine De Mol , Sofia Mosci , Magali Traskine , Alessandro Verri

Natural language (NL) explanations of model predictions are gaining popularity as a means to understand and verify decisions made by large black-box pre-trained models, for NLP tasks such as Question Answering (QA) and Fact Verification.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Kushal Lakhotia , Bhargavi Paranjape , Asish Ghoshal , Wen-tau Yih , Yashar Mehdad , Srinivasan Iyer

Promoters and enhancers are cis-regulatory elements (CREs), DNA sequences that bind transcription factor (TF) proteins to up- or down-regulate target genes. Decades-long efforts yielded TF-DNA interaction models that predict how strongly an…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-30 Elia Mascolo , Réka Borbély , Noa Ottilie Borst , Nicholas H Barton , Justin Crocker , Gašper Tkačik

Many biological processes have been the source of inspiration for heuristic methods that generate high-quality solutions to solve optimization and search problems. This thesis presents an epigenetic technique for Evolutionary Algorithms,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Alvarez Lifeth

Motivation: Detecting local correlations in expression between neighbor genes along the genome has proved to be an effective strategy to identify possible causes of transcriptional deregulation in cancer. It has been successfully used to…

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

RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is the conventional genome-scale approach used to capture the expression levels of all detectable genes in a biological sample. This is now regularly used for population-based studies designed to identify genetic…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-25 Christopher Thron , Farhad Jafari