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Gene regulatory network inference (GRNI) is a challenging problem, particularly owing to the presence of zeros in single-cell RNA sequencing data: some are biological zeros representing no gene expression, while some others are technical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-26 Haoyue Dai , Ignavier Ng , Gongxu Luo , Peter Spirtes , Petar Stojanov , Kun Zhang

Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) inference is essential for understanding complex cellular mechanisms, rendered tractable through single-cell transcriptomic data. With the emergence of single-cell Foundation Models (scFMs), enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiaxin Qi , Hang Li , Yan Cui , Yuhua Zheng , Jianqiang Huang

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

Biomarker discovery from high-throughput transcriptomic data is crucial for advancing precision medicine. However, existing methods often neglect gene-gene regulatory relationships and lack stability across datasets, leading to conflation…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-18 Chaowang Lan , Jingxin Wu , Yulong Yuan , Chuxun Liu , Huangyi Kang , Caihua Liu

Understanding causal relationships within Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is essential for unraveling the gene interactions in cellular processes. However, causal discovery in GRNs is a challenging problem for multiple reasons including the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Trang Nguyen , Alexander Tong , Kanika Madan , Yoshua Bengio , Dianbo Liu

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) represent the causal relationships between transcription factors (TFs) and target genes in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. Understanding these networks is crucial for uncovering disease…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Tejumade Afonja , Ivaxi Sheth , Ruta Binkyte , Waqar Hanif , Thomas Ulas , Matthias Becker , Mario Fritz

A major goal in genomics is to properly capture the complex dynamical behaviors of gene regulatory networks (GRNs). This includes inferring the complex interactions between genes, which can be used for a wide range of genomics analyses,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-18 Mohammad Alali , Mahdi Imani

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) define the regulatory relationships among molecules such as transcription factors, chromatin remodelers, and target genes. GRNs play a critical role in diverse biological processes, including development,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-24 Junha Shin , Spencer Halberg-Spencer , Yuda Liu , Suvojit Hazra , Erika Da-Inn Lee , Sushmita Roy

Accurately inferring Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) is a critical and challenging task in biology. GRNs model the activatory and inhibitory interactions between genes and are inherently causal in nature. To accurately identify GRNs,…

Gene regulatory network (GRN) refers to the complex network formed by regulatory interactions between genes in living cells. In this paper, we consider inferring GRNs in single cells based on single cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. In…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-24 Junjie Tang , Changhu Wang , Feiyi Xiao , Ruibin Xi

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

Benchmark rankings are routinely used to justify scientific claims about method quality in gene regulatory network (GRN) inference, yet the stability of these rankings under plausible evaluation protocol choices is rarely examined. We…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-05 Ihor Kendiukhov

Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) are intricate biological systems that control gene expression and regulation in response to environmental and developmental cues. Advances in computational biology, coupled with high throughput sequencing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Akshata Hegde , Tom Nguyen , Jianlin Cheng

One of the main goals of developmental biology is to reveal the gene regulatory networks (GRNs) underlying the robust differentiation of multipotent progenitors into precisely specified cell types. Most existing methods to infer GRNs from…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-23 Maria Mircea , Diego Garlaschelli , Stefan Semrau

Delays in protein synthesis cause a confounding effect when constructing Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from RNA-sequencing time-series data. Accurate GRNs can be very insightful when modelling development, disease pathways, and drug…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-07 Jacob Moss , Pietro Lió

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 inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is a foundational stride towards deciphering the fundamentals of complex biological systems. Inferring a possible regulatory link between two genes can be formulated as a link prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Binon Teji , Swarup Roy

Foundation models for single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) have shown promising capabilities in capturing gene expression patterns. However, current approaches face critical limitations: they ignore biological prior knowledge encoded in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Mufan Qiu , Xinyu Hu , Fengwei Zhan , Sukwon Yun , Jie Peng , Ruichen Zhang , Bhavya Kailkhura , Jiekun Yang , Tianlong Chen

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

Gene regulatory networks are powerful tools for modeling interactions among genes to regulate their expression for homeostasis and differentiation. Single-cell sequencing offers a unique opportunity to build these networks with…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Yasin Uzun
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