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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…

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Knowing gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is important for understanding various biological mechanisms. In this paper, we present a method, QWENDY, that uses single-cell gene expression data measured at four time points to infer GRNs. Based…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Yue Wang , Xueying Tian

Deciphering complex gene-gene interactions remains challenging in transcriptomics as traditional methods often miss higher-order and nonlinear dependencies. This study introduces a quantum-inspired framework leveraging tensor networks (TNs)…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-09 Olatz Sanz Larrarte , Borja Aizpurua , Reza Dastbasteh , Ruben M. Otxoa , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez

Systems biology is an emerging interdisciplinary area of research that focuses on study of complex interactions in a biological system, such as gene regulatory networks. The discovery of gene regulatory networks leads to a wide range of…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-13 Khalid Raza , Mansaf Alam

Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) play a central role in cellular decision-making. Understanding their structure and how it impacts their dynamics constitutes thus a fundamental biological question. GRNs are frequently modeled as Boolean…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-19 Claus Kadelka , Taras-Michael Butrie , Evan Hilton , Jack Kinseth , Addison Schmidt , Haris Serdarevic

Cell type identification from single-cell transcriptomic data is a common goal of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) data analysis. Neural networks have been employed to identify cell types from scRNAseq data with high performance.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-11 Xishuang Dong , Shanta Chowdhury , Uboho Victor , Xiangfang Li , Lijun Qian

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

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

The Gene Regulatory Network (GRN) of biological cells governs a number of key functionalities that enables them to adapt and survive through different environmental conditions. Close observation of the GRN shows that the structure and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Adrian Ratwatte , Samitha Somathilaka , Sasitharan Balasubramaniam , Assaf A. Gilad

Cellular differentiation is governed by gene regulatory networks, the high-dimensional stochastic biochemical systems that determine the transcriptional landscape and mediate cellular responses to signals and perturbations. Although…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-29 Suryanarayana Maddu , Victor Chardès , Michael J. Shelley

Binarization of gene expression data is a \textbf{critical prerequisite} for the synthesis of Boolean gene regulatory network (GRN) models from omics datasets. Because Boolean networks encode gene activity as binary variables, the accuracy…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ismail Belgacem , Franck Delaplace

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

We present a novel classification-based method for learning to predict gene regulatory response. Our approach is motivated by the hypothesis that in simple organisms such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we can learn a decision rule for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Manuel Middendorf , Anshul Kundaje , Chris Wiggins , Yoav Freund , Christina Leslie

Gene regulatory network (GRN) inference serves as a cornerstone for deciphering cellular decision-making processes. Early approaches rely exclusively on gene expression data, thus their predictive power remain fundamentally constrained by…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 Rui Peng , Yuchen Lu , Qichen Sun , Yuxing Lu , Chi Zhang , Ziru Liu , Jinzhuo Wang

Correct inference of genetic regulations inside a cell is one of the greatest challenges in post genomic era for the biologist and researchers. Several intelligent techniques and models were already proposed to identify the regulatory…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-03 Sudip Mandal , Goutam Saha , Rajat K. Pal

In recent years, several machine learning approaches have been proposed to predict gene expression and epigenetic signals from the DNA sequence alone. These models are often used to deduce, and, to some extent, assess putative new…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Laurent Bréhélin

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

Genes are fundamental for analyzing biological systems and many recent works proposed to utilize gene expression for various biological tasks by deep learning models. Despite their promising performance, it is hard for deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Xinnan Dai , Caihua Shan , Jie Zheng , Xiaoxiao Li , Dongsheng Li

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as a powerful tool to capture intricate network patterns, achieving success across different domains. However, existing GNNs require careful domain-specific architecture designs and training from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Jingzhe Liu , Haitao Mao , Zhikai Chen , Bingheng Li , Wenqi Fan , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Jiliang Tang

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data simulation is limited by classical methods that rely on linear correlations, failing to capture the intrinsic, nonlinear dependencies. No existing simulator jointly models gene-gene and cell-cell…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-22 Selim Romero , Vignesh S. Kumar , Robert S. Chapkin , James J. Cai