The use of machine learning to discover regulatory networks controlling biological systems

R Erbe, J Gore, K Gemmill, DA Gaykalova, EJ Fertig - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Biological systems are composed of a vast web of multiscale molecular interactors and
interactions. High-throughput technologies, both bulk and single cell, now allow for …

Inference of cell type-specific gene regulatory networks on cell lineages from single cell omic datasets

S Zhang, S Pyne, S Pietrzak, S Halberg… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns are outputs of transcriptional gene regulatory
networks (GRNs) that connect transcription factors and signaling proteins to target genes …

MICA: a multi-omics method to predict gene regulatory networks in early human embryos

G Alanis-Lobato, TE Bartlett, Q Huang… - Life Science …, 2024 - life-science-alliance.org
Recent advances in single-cell omics have transformed characterisation of cell types in
challenging-to-study biological contexts. In contexts with limited single-cell samples, such as …

Network inference with Granger causality ensembles on single-cell transcriptomics

A Deshpande, LF Chu, R Stewart, A Gitter - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Cellular gene expression changes throughout a dynamic biological process, such as
differentiation. Pseudotimes estimate cells' progress along a dynamic process based on …

Computational approaches to understand transcription regulation in development

M van der Sande, S Frölich… - Biochemical Society …, 2023 - portlandpress.com
Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) serve as useful abstractions to understand transcriptional
dynamics in developmental systems. Computational prediction of GRNs has been …

GRaNIE and GRaNPA: Inference and evaluation of enhancer-mediated gene regulatory networks applied to study macrophages

A Kamal, C Arnold, A Claringbould, R Moussa… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Among the biggest challenges in the post-GWAS (genome-wide association studies) era is
the interpretation of disease-associated genetic variants in non-coding genomic regions …

Contextualized Networks Reveal Heterogeneous Transcriptomic Regulation in Tumors at Sample-Specific Resolution

CN Ellington, BJ Lengerich, TBK Watkins, J Yang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Cancers are shaped by somatic mutations, microenvironment, and patient background, each
altering gene expression and regulation in complex ways, resulting in heterogeneous …

A mechanistic simulation of molecular cell states over time

R Erbe, G Stein-O'Brien, E Fertig - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Computer simulations of cell behaviors and dynamics allow for investigation of aspects of
cellular biology with a ground truth that is currently difficult or impossible to generate from …

STREAMLINE: Structural and Topological Performance Analysis of Algorithms for the Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks from Single-Cell Transcriptomic Data

N Popp, M Stock, J Fiorentino, A Scialdone - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
In recent years, many algorithms for inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell
transcriptomic data have been published. Several studies have evaluated their accuracy in …

[HTML][HTML] Dozer: Debiased personalized gene co-expression networks for population-scale scRNA-seq data

S Lu, S Keleş - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Population-scale single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) datasets create unique opportunities for
quantifying expression variation across individuals at the gene co-expression network level …