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It is basic question in biology and other fields to identify the char- acteristic properties that on one hand are shared by structures from a particular realm, like gene regulation, protein-protein interaction or neu- ral networks or foodwebs, and that on the other hand distinguish them from other structures. We introduce and apply a general method, based on the spectrum of the normalized graph Laplacian, that yields repre- sentations, the spectral plots, that allow us to find and visualize such properties systematically. We present such visualizations for a wide range of biological networks and compare them with those for networks derived from theoretical schemes. The differences that we find are quite striking and suggest that the search for universal properties of biological networks should be complemented by an understanding of more specific features of biological organization principles at different scales.
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In systems biology modeling, important steps include model parameterization, uncertainty quantification, and evaluation of agreement with experimental observations. To help modelers perform these steps, we developed the software PyBioNetFit. PyBioNetFit is designed for parameterization, and also supports uncertainty quantification, checking models against known system properties, and solving design problems. PyBioNetFit introduces the Biological Property Specification Language (BPSL) for the formal declaration of system properties. BPSL allows qualitative data to be used alone or in combination with quantitative data for parameterization model checking, and design. PyBioNetFit performs parameterization with parallelized metaheuristic optimization algorithms (differential evolution, particle swarm optimization, scatter search) that work directly with existing model definition standards: BioNetGen Language (BNGL) and Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML). We demonstrate PyBioNetFits capabilities by solving 31 example problems, including the challenging problem of parameterizing a model of cell cycle control in yeast. We benchmark PyBioNetFits parallelization efficiency on computer clusters, using up to 288 cores. Finally, we demonstrate the model checking and design applications of PyBioNetFit and BPSL by analyzing a model of therapeutic interventions in autophagy signaling.
Modeling biological rhythms helps understand the complex principles behind the physical and psychological abnormalities of human bodies, to plan life schedules, and avoid persisting fatigue and mood and sleep alterations due to the desynchronization of those rhythms. The first step in modeling biological rhythms is to identify their characteristics, such as cyclic periods, phase, and amplitude. However, human rhythms are susceptible to external events, which cause irregular fluctuations in waveforms and affect the characterization of each rhythm. In this paper, we present our exploratory work towards developing a computational framework for automated discovery and modeling of human rhythms. We first identify cyclic periods in time series data using three different methods and test their performance on both synthetic data and real fine-grained biological data. We observe consistent periods are detected by all three methods. We then model inner cycles within each period through identifying change points to observe fluctuations in biological data that may inform the impact of external events on human rhythms. The results provide initial insights into the design of a computational framework for discovering and modeling human rhythms.
Equation learning methods present a promising tool to aid scientists in the modeling process for biological data. Previous equation learning studies have demonstrated that these methods can infer models from rich datasets, however, the performance of these methods in the presence of common challenges from biological data has not been thoroughly explored. We present an equation learning methodology comprised of data denoising, equation learning, model selection and post-processing steps that infers a dynamical systems model from noisy spatiotemporal data. The performance of this methodology is thoroughly investigated in the face of several common challenges presented by biological data, namely, sparse data sampling, large noise levels, and heterogeneity between datasets. We find that this methodology can accurately infer the correct underlying equation and predict unobserved system dynamics from a small number of time samples when the data is sampled over a time interval exhibiting both linear and nonlinear dynamics. Our findings suggest that equation learning methods can be used for model discovery and selection in many areas of biology when an informative dataset is used. We focus on glioblastoma multiforme modeling as a case study in this work to highlight how these results are informative for data-driven modeling-based tumor invasion predictions.
The origins of herbal medicines are important for their treatment effect, which could be potentially distinguished by electronic nose system. As the odor fingerprint of herbal medicines from different origins can be tiny, the discrimination of origins can be much harder than that of different categories. Better feature extraction methods are significant for this task to be more accurately done, but there lacks systematic studies on different feature extraction methods. In this study, we classified different origins of three categories of herbal medicines with different feature extraction methods: manual feature extraction, mathematical transformation, deep learning algorithms. With 50 repetitive experiments with bootstrapping, we compared the effectiveness of the extractions with a two-layer neural network w/o dimensionality reduction methods (principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis) as the three base classifiers. Compared with the conventional aggregated features, the Fast Fourier Transform method and our novel approach (longitudinal-information-in-a-line) showed an significant accuracy improvement(p < 0.05) on all 3 base classifiers and all three herbal medicine categories. Two of the deep learning algorithm we applied also showed partially significant improvement: one-dimensional convolution neural network(1D-CNN) and a novel graph pooling based framework - multivariate time pooling(MTPool).
Sequences of nucleotides (for DNA and RNA) or amino acids (for proteins) are central objects in biology. Among the most important computational problems is that of sequence alignment, i.e. arranging sequences from different organisms in such a way to identify similar regions, to detect evolutionary relationships between sequences, and to predict biomolecular structure and function. This is typically addressed through profile models, which capture position-specificities like conservation in sequences, but assume an independent evolution of different positions. Over the last years, it has been well established that coevolution of different amino-acid positions is essential for maintaining three-dimensional structure and function. Modeling approaches based on inverse statistical physics can catch the coevolution signal in sequence ensembles; and they are now widely used in predicting protein structure, protein-protein interactions, and mutational landscapes. Here, we present DCAlign, an efficient alignment algorithm based on an approximate message-passing strategy, which is able to overcome the limitations of profile models, to include coevolution among positions in a general way, and to be therefore universally applicable to protein- and RNA-sequence alignment without the need of using complementary structural information. The potential of DCAlign is carefully explored using well-controlled simulated data, as well as real protein and RNA sequences.
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