Bayesian networks for gene regulatory pathways using hybrid quantum-classical ML.
problem Elucidate gene regulatory pathways from proteomics data.
method Hybrid quantum-classical machine learning framework to build Bayesian networks.
result Scalable framework for learning gene regulatory networks from proteomics data.
A method clusters genes in large gene regulatory networks using semi-supervised hierarchical clustering.
problem Challenging task of identifying interaction clusters in large gene regulatory networks due to data noise and inconsistency.
method SHC-DC: a semi-supervised hierarchical clustering method using deconvolved correlation matrix.
result SHC-DC discovers interaction modules enriched in various signal pathways, validating sleep's impact on interleukin levels and related pathways.
BioBO optimizes gene perturbation design using Bayesian optimization with biological priors.
problem Efficient design of genomic perturbation experiments in drug discovery.
method Integrates Bayesian optimization with multimodal gene embeddings and enrichment analysis.
result Improves labeling efficiency by 25-40% and identifies top-performing perturbations more effectively.
Machine learning identifies key metabolic control circuits in bacterial pathways.
problem Identifying regulated metabolic pathways in bacteria.
method Machine learning approach analyzing multi-omics data.
result Identification of E. coli Glycolysis regulatory circuits.
Method infers multi-layer networks from gene expression data.
problem Inference of multi-level networks from gene expression data.
method Extension of latent graphical lasso method leveraging group structure.
result Efficacy in retrieving multi-layer network structure from synthetic data.
Bayesian model learns cell types and gene networks from two data views.
problem Estimating cell types and their regulatory networks from single-cell gene expression and epigenetic data.
method Symphony Bayesian hierarchical multi-view mixture model with Variational EM inference.
result Symphony outperforms other methods in learning cell types and regulatory networks.
Bayesian method discovers local causal relationships among genes from gene expression data.
problem Discovering gene regulatory relationships from gene expression data.
method Bayesian approach scoring covariance structures for triplets of normally distributed variables, incorporating background knowledge as priors.
result Stable and conservative posterior probability estimates of local causal structures.
InfoSEM infers gene regulatory networks without GT labels, improving performance.
problem Inferring GRNs from gene expression data with high accuracy and avoiding biases.
method InfoSEM uses deep generative models with informative priors (textual gene embeddings).
result InfoSEM outperforms existing models by 38.5% across four datasets.
NO-BEARS algorithm speeds up gene network inference from transcriptomic data.
problem Constructing accurate gene regulatory networks from transcriptomic data.
method NO-BEARS algorithm, based on NOTEARS, with new constraint and polynomial regression loss.
result Significantly reduced computational time and improved accuracy in inferring gene regulatory networks.
TNDE quantifies dynamic gene drivers from single-cell snapshots.
problem Reconstructing time-resolved regulatory effects in biological processes.
method Time-varying Network Driver Estimation (TNDE) using shared graph attention encoder and partial optimal transport.
result TNDE identifies stage-specific driver genes in mouse erythropoiesis.
We present the extention and application of a new unsupervised statistical learning technique--the Partition Decoupling Method--to gene expression data. Because it has the ability to reveal non-linear and non-convex geometries present in the data, the PDM is an improvement over typical gene expression analysis algorith…
Bayesian method infers gene regulatory network structure from data.
problem Discovering local causal relationships in gene regulatory networks.
method Bayesian approach scoring covariance patterns with background priors.
result Stable and conservative posterior estimates of regulatory relationships.
Develops probabilistic models for gene regulatory network inference.
problem Challenges in reconstructing gene regulatory networks from genome-wide data.
method Two complementary frameworks: PMF-GRN and GLM-Prior.
result Probabilistic inference refines regulatory estimates with quantified uncertainty.
DASH simplifies neural networks for gene regulatory dynamics using domain knowledge.
problem Pruning neural networks for gene regulatory dynamics lacks biologically meaningful structure learning.
method DASH uses domain-specific structural information to guide network pruning, leading to sparser, better interpretable models.
result DASH outperforms general pruning methods in gene regulatory network inference, yielding deeper insights.
Efficiently infers gene regulatory networks from spatial data.
problem Inferring spatially-varying gene regulatory networks.
method Proposed an efficient optimization problem for SV-GMRFs.
result Solves large-scale SV-GMRF problems in minutes.
When searching for gene pathways leading to specific disease outcomes, additional information on gene characteristics is often available that may facilitate to differentiate genes related to the disease from irrelevant background when connections involving both types of genes are observed and their relationships to the…
LAGE is a systematic framework developed in Java. The motivation of LAGE is to provide a scalable and parallel solution to reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from continuous gene expression data for very large amount of genes. The basic idea of our framework is motivated by the philosophy of divideand-conquer.…
This paper is concerned with the problem of stochastic control of gene regulatory networks (GRNs) observed indirectly through noisy measurements and with uncertainty in the intervention inputs. The partial observability of the gene states and uncertainty in the intervention process are accounted for by modeling GRNs us…
Quantitatively predicting phenotype variables by the expression changes in a set of candidate genes is of great interest in molecular biology but it is also a challenging task for several reasons. First, the collected biological observations might be heterogeneous and correspond to different biological mechanisms. Seco…
Reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks is an important task in functional genomics. Data obtained from experiments that perturb genes by knockouts or RNA interference contain useful information for addressing this reconstruction problem. However, such data can be limited in size and/or are expensive to acqu…
Generative model for inferring graph from time series data.
problem Generating graphs conditioned on multivariate time series data.
method Time Series Conditioned Graph Generation-Generative Adversarial Networks (TSGG-GAN).
result Demonstrates effectiveness and generalizability of TSGG-GAN on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Paper uses machine learning to identify key pathways for c-di-GMP in bacterial genomes.
problem Understanding pathways essential for c-di-GMP in bacterial cellulose production.
method Applied Lasso and Random Forests for feature selection and modeling gene count data.
result Bacterial chemotaxis is identified as the most essential pathway for c-di-GMP encoding domains.
The analysis of cancer genomic data has long suffered "the curse of dimensionality". Sample sizes for most cancer genomic studies are a few hundreds at most while there are tens of thousands of genomic features studied. Various methods have been proposed to leverage prior biological knowledge, such as pathways, to more…
A new method speeds up overlapping group lasso computations.
problem Time-consuming optimization of overlapping group lasso on large-scale problems.
method Non-overlapping statistical approximation to overlapping group lasso.
result The proposed penalty is statistically equivalent to overlapping group lasso.
Algorithm recovers large causal tree from small samples.
problem Determining causal structure in large gene networks.
method Algorithm that recovers tree with high accuracy under mild conditions.
result High accuracy in recovering causal tree from small samples.
Inference of gene regulatory network from expression data is a challenging task. Many methods have been developed to this purpose but a comprehensive evaluation that covers unsupervised, semi-supervised and supervised methods, and provides guidelines for their practical application, is lacking. We performed an extensiv…
Motivation: The rapid growth of diverse biological data allows us to consider interactions between a variety of objects, such as genes, chemicals, molecular signatures, diseases, pathways and environmental exposures. Often, any pair of objects--such as a gene and a disease--can be related in different ways, for example…
New method infers causal factors from large-scale data without full graph reconstruction.
problem Inferring causal variables from large-scale systems without full causal graph reconstruction.
method Supervised learning on simulated data using a neural network and subsampled-ensemble inference.
result Efficiently identifies causal relationships in large-scale gene regulatory networks.
The paper develops a scalable method to infer GRNs from sparse data.
problem Inferring complex gene regulatory networks from limited and temporally sparse data.
method Bayesian optimization and kernel-based methods to construct a Gaussian Process (GP) model.
result The method efficiently searches for the topology with the highest likelihood value.
Components of biological systems interact with each other in order to carry out vital cell functions. Such information can be used to improve estimation and inference, and to obtain better insights into the underlying cellular mechanisms. Discovering regulatory interactions among genes is therefore an important problem…
Use of computational methods to predict gene regulatory networks (GRNs) from gene expression data is a challenging task. Many studies have been conducted using unsupervised methods to fulfill the task; however, such methods usually yield low prediction accuracies due to the lack of training data. In this article, we pr…
Proposes guidelines for developing medical AI products.
problem Lack of clear pathways for regulating medical AI.
method Statistical risk perspective and deep understanding of machine learning methodologies.
result Enhanced development of medical AI products and regulations.
A new method for joint eQTL mapping and gene network estimation.
problem Discovering SNP-gene relationships and gene-gene relationships in gene expression regulation.
method L1-2 regularized multi-task graphical lasso (L1-2 GLasso).
result Competitive performance on capturing true sparse structures of eQTL mapping and gene network.
VEGN uses graph neural networks to predict disease-causing mutations from genetic variants.
problem Identifying disease-causing mutations from millions of genetic variants.
method VEGN employs a graph neural network on a heterogeneous graph of genes and variants, learning gene-gene interactions.
result VEGN outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in variant effect prediction.
ZICO learns DAGs from zero-inflated count data efficiently.
problem Learning network structures from zero-inflated count data.
method ZICO uses node-wise likelihoods with canonical links and a differentiable surrogate constraint for acyclicity.
result ZICO achieves superior performance and faster runtimes on simulated data.
A new method infers causal gene regulatory networks from parallel CRISPR interventions and transcriptomic data.
problem Learning causal gene regulatory networks from observational data is complicated by lack of identifiability and a combinatorial solution space.
method A continuous optimization framework that leverages observational and interventional data to infer a single causal structure, assuming a linear Structural Equation Model (SEM).
result A provably consistent estimator of the true DAG under mild assumptions.
In genome-wide interaction studies, to detect gene-gene interactions, most methods are divided into two folds: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) based and gene-based methods. Basically, the methods based on the gene are more effective than the methods based on a single SNP. Recent years, while the kernel canonical …
We study the challenges of applying deep learning to gene expression data. We find experimentally that there exists non-linear signal in the data, however is it not discovered automatically given the noise and low numbers of samples used in most research. We discuss how gene interaction graphs (same pathway, protein-pr…
Motivation: Cell-biological processes are regulated through a complex network of interactions between genes and their products. The processes, their activating conditions, and the associated transcriptional responses are often unknown. Organism-wide modeling of network activation can reveal unique and shared mechanisms…
ABCDEFG learns causal graphs from interventional data efficiently.
problem Learning causal graphs from interventional data is challenging.
method Amortized Bayesian Causal Discovery of Extended Factor Graphs (ABCDEFG)
result Estimates a posterior distribution that identifies the true causal graph up to an equivalence class.
We present the Network-based Biased Tree Ensembles (NetBiTE) method for drug sensitivity prediction and drug sensitivity biomarker identification in cancer using a combination of prior knowledge and gene expression data. Our devised method consists of a biased tree ensemble that is built according to a probabilistic bi…
ASCEND discovers causal relationships in multi-omics data by leveraging known hierarchical structure.
problem Causal inference in high-dimensional multi-omics data, especially when ignoring the hierarchical structure.
method Two-tiered divide-and-conquer strategy with ancestral conditioning sets.
result Achieves polynomial-time complexity and accurately recovers ancestral relationships.
New method learns complex cell networks from millions of cells.
problem Existing methods fail to scale to large datasets.
method Multi-axis Gaussian graphical models.
result Method scales to millions of cells in minutes.
Coregulation of the expression of groups of genes has been extensively demonstrated empirically in bacterial and eukaryotic systems. Such coregulation can arise through the use of shared regulatory motifs, which allow the coordinated expression of modules (and module groups) of functionally related genes across the gen…
Due to the dynamic nature of biological systems, biological networks underlying temporal process such as the development of {\it Drosophila melanogaster} can exhibit significant topological changes to facilitate dynamic regulatory functions. Thus it is essential to develop methodologies that capture the temporal evolut…
Causal methods for GRN inference from single-cell data often fail in real-world benchmarks.
problem Understanding when and why causal methods for GRN inference from single-cell data fail in real-world benchmarks.
method Introduced a controlled diagnostic framework to isolate and measure seven pathologies.
result Causal methods dominate in clean and structurally favorable regimes but fail in specific pathologies.
Method learns shared and specific factors in multi-study gene expression data.
problem Understanding shared and specific factors in high-dimensional multi-study data.
method Nonlinear multi-study factor model with sparse variational autoencoder.
result Method recovers meaningful shared and specific factors in platelet gene expression data.
Paper proposes a human-algorithm approach to reduce medical device recall risk and workload.
problem High recall rate and regulatory workload in FDA's 510(k) pathway.
method Developed machine learning models to estimate recall risk and proposed a data-driven clearance policy.
result Conservative evaluation of policy shows a 32.9% improvement in recall rate and 40.5% reduction in workload.