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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become the standard method for learning from networks across fields ranging from biology to social systems, yet a principled understanding of what enables them to extract meaningful representations, or why…

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A central goal in systems biology and drug discovery is to predict the transcriptional response of cells to perturbations. This task is challenging due to the noisy and sparse nature of single-cell measurements, as well as the fact that…

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The investigation of plant transcriptional regulation constitutes a fundamental basis for crop breeding, where cis-regulatory elements (CREs), as the key factor determining gene expression, have become the focus of crop genetic improvement…

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Stem cells can precisely and robustly undergo cellular differentiation and lineage commitment, referred to as stemness. However, how the gene network underlying stemness regulation reliably specifies cell fates is not well understood. To…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-02 Bin Huang , Mingyang Lu , Madeline Galbraith , Herbert Levine , Jose N. Onuchic , Dongya Jia

We introduce a comprehensive framework for modeling single cell transcriptomic responses to perturbations, aimed at standardizing benchmarking in this rapidly evolving field. Our approach includes a modular and user-friendly model…

In this paper, we study the problem of inferring spatially-varying Gaussian Markov random fields (SV-GMRF) where the goal is to learn a network of sparse, context-specific GMRFs representing network relationships between genes. An important…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-22 Visweswaran Ravikumar , Tong Xu , Wajd N. Al-Holou , Salar Fattahi , Arvind Rao

The rise of single-cell sequencing technologies has revolutionized the exploration of drug resistance, revealing the crucial role of cellular heterogeneity in advancing precision medicine. By building computational models from existing…

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The methodology of community detection can be divided into two principles: imposing a network model on a given graph, or optimizing a designed objective function. The former provides guarantees on theoretical detectability but falls short…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-06 Pin-Yu Chen , Lingfei Wu

In this paper, we conduct theoretical analyses on inferring the structure of gene regulatory networks. Depending on the experimental method and data type, the inference problem is classified into 20 different scenarios. For each scenario,…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-18 Yue Wang , Zikun Wang

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

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

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have advanced significantly in handling graph-structured data, but a comprehensive framework for evaluating explainability remains lacking. Existing evaluation frameworks primarily involve post-hoc explanations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Magdalena Proszewska , N. Siddharth

Gene Regulatory Networks(GRNs) with feedback are essential components of many cellular processes and may exhibit oscillatory behavior. Analyzing such systems becomes increasingly complex as the number of components increases. Since gene…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-22 Manuel Eduardo Hernández-García , Jorge Velázquez-Castro

Determining mechanistic models of gene regulation, especially underlying phenotypic variation, is a central goal of both mathematical biology and modern evolutionary biology. However, several challenges, involving both common…

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Cellular phenotypes are determined by the dynamical activity of networks of co-regulated genes. Elucidating such networks is crucial for the understanding of normal cell physiology as well as for the dissection of complex pathologic…

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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

Scientific modeling faces a tradeoff between the interpretability of mechanistic theory and the predictive power of machine learning. While existing hybrid approaches have made progress by incorporating domain knowledge into machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Carson Dudley , Reiden Magdaleno , Christopher Harding , Marisa Eisenberg

Gaussian Graphical Models (GGMs) have been used to construct genetic regulatory networks where regularization techniques are widely used since the network inference usually falls into a high-dimension-low-sample-size scenario. Yet, finding…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-04-24 Shuang Li , Li Hsu , Jie Peng , Pei Wang

Understanding the relationships among genes, compounds, and their interactions in living organisms remains limited due to technological constraints and the complexity of biological data. Deep learning has shown promise in exploring these…

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