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Structural identifiability of biomolecular controller motifs with and without flow measurements as model output. 具有和不具有作为模型输出的流量测量的生物分子控制器基序的结构可识别性。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-28 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011398
Eivind S Haus, Tormod Drengstig, Kristian Thorsen
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Estimating the epidemic reproduction number from temporally aggregated incidence data: A statistical modelling approach and software tool. 根据时间聚集的发病率数据估计流行病繁殖数量:一种统计建模方法和软件工具。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-28 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011439
Rebecca K Nash, Samir Bhatt, Anne Cori, Pierre Nouvellet
{"title":"Estimating the epidemic reproduction number from temporally aggregated incidence data: A statistical modelling approach and software tool.","authors":"Rebecca K Nash, Samir Bhatt, Anne Cori, Pierre Nouvellet","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011439","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011439","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The time-varying reproduction number (Rt) is an important measure of epidemic transmissibility that directly informs policy decisions and the optimisation of control measures. EpiEstim is a widely used opensource software tool that uses case incidence and the serial interval (SI, time between symptoms in a case and their infector) to estimate Rt in real-time. The incidence and the SI distribution must be provided at the same temporal resolution, which can limit the applicability of EpiEstim and other similar methods, e.g. for contexts where the time window of incidence reporting is longer than the mean SI. In the EpiEstim R package, we implement an expectation-maximisation algorithm to reconstruct daily incidence from temporally aggregated data, from which Rt can then be estimated. We assess the validity of our method using an extensive simulation study and apply it to COVID-19 and influenza data. For all datasets, the influence of intra-weekly variability in reported data was mitigated by using aggregated weekly data. Rt estimated on weekly sliding windows using incidence reconstructed from weekly data was strongly correlated with estimates from the original daily data. The simulation study revealed that Rt was well estimated in all scenarios and regardless of the temporal aggregation of the data. In the presence of weekend effects, Rt estimates from reconstructed data were more successful at recovering the true value of Rt than those obtained from reported daily data. These results show that this novel method allows Rt to be successfully recovered from aggregated data using a simple approach with very few data requirements. Additionally, by removing administrative noise when daily incidence data are reconstructed, the accuracy of Rt estimates can be improved.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491397/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10207476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Switching state-space modeling of neural signal dynamics. 神经信号动力学的切换状态空间建模。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-28 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011395
Mingjian He, Proloy Das, Gladia Hotan, Patrick L Purdon
{"title":"Switching state-space modeling of neural signal dynamics.","authors":"Mingjian He, Proloy Das, Gladia Hotan, Patrick L Purdon","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011395","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011395","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Linear parametric state-space models are a ubiquitous tool for analyzing neural time series data, providing a way to characterize the underlying brain dynamics with much greater statistical efficiency than non-parametric data analysis approaches. However, neural time series data are frequently time-varying, exhibiting rapid changes in dynamics, with transient activity that is often the key feature of interest in the data. Stationary methods can be adapted to time-varying scenarios by employing fixed-duration windows under an assumption of quasi-stationarity. But time-varying dynamics can be explicitly modeled by switching state-space models, i.e., by using a pool of state-space models with different dynamics selected by a probabilistic switching process. Unfortunately, exact solutions for state inference and parameter learning with switching state-space models are intractable. Here we revisit a switching state-space model inference approach first proposed by Ghahramani and Hinton. We provide explicit derivations for solving the inference problem iteratively after applying a variational approximation on the joint posterior of the hidden states and the switching process. We introduce a novel initialization procedure using an efficient leave-one-out strategy to compare among candidate models, which significantly improves performance compared to the existing method that relies on deterministic annealing. We then utilize this state inference solution within a generalized expectation-maximization algorithm to estimate model parameters of the switching process and the linear state-space models with dynamics potentially shared among candidate models. We perform extensive simulations under different settings to benchmark performance against existing switching inference methods and further validate the robustness of our switching inference solution outside the generative switching model class. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of our method for sleep spindle detection in real recordings, showing how switching state-space models can be used to detect and extract transient spindles from human sleep electroencephalograms in an unsupervised manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10491408/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10212762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Curated single cell multimodal landmark datasets for R/Bioconductor. 为R/Bioconductor绘制的单细胞多峰标志性数据集。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-25 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011324
Kelly B Eckenrode, Dario Righelli, Marcel Ramos, Ricard Argelaguet, Christophe Vanderaa, Ludwig Geistlinger, Aedin C Culhane, Laurent Gatto, Vincent Carey, Martin Morgan, Davide Risso, Levi Waldron
{"title":"Curated single cell multimodal landmark datasets for R/Bioconductor.","authors":"Kelly B Eckenrode, Dario Righelli, Marcel Ramos, Ricard Argelaguet, Christophe Vanderaa, Ludwig Geistlinger, Aedin C Culhane, Laurent Gatto, Vincent Carey, Martin Morgan, Davide Risso, Levi Waldron","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011324","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011324","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The majority of high-throughput single-cell molecular profiling methods quantify RNA expression; however, recent multimodal profiling methods add simultaneous measurement of genomic, proteomic, epigenetic, and/or spatial information on the same cells. The development of new statistical and computational methods in Bioconductor for such data will be facilitated by easy availability of landmark datasets using standard data classes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We collected, processed, and packaged publicly available landmark datasets from important single-cell multimodal protocols, including CITE-Seq, ECCITE-Seq, SCoPE2, scNMT, 10X Multiome, seqFISH, and G&T. We integrate data modalities via the MultiAssayExperiment Bioconductor class, document and re-distribute datasets as the SingleCellMultiModal package in Bioconductor's Cloud-based ExperimentHub. The result is single-command actualization of landmark datasets from seven single-cell multimodal data generation technologies, without need for further data processing or wrangling in order to analyze and develop methods within Bioconductor's ecosystem of hundreds of packages for single-cell and multimodal data.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>We provide two examples of integrative analyses that are greatly simplified by SingleCellMultiModal. The package will facilitate development of bioinformatic and statistical methods in Bioconductor to meet the challenges of integrating molecular layers and analyzing phenotypic outputs including cell differentiation, activity, and disease.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497156/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10262459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Disentangling Abstraction from Statistical Pattern Matching in Human and Machine Learning. 从人机学习中的统计模式匹配中分离抽象。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-25 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011316
Sreejan Kumar, Ishita Dasgupta, Nathaniel D Daw, Jonathan D Cohen, Thomas L Griffiths
{"title":"Disentangling Abstraction from Statistical Pattern Matching in Human and Machine Learning.","authors":"Sreejan Kumar,&nbsp;Ishita Dasgupta,&nbsp;Nathaniel D Daw,&nbsp;Jonathan D Cohen,&nbsp;Thomas L Griffiths","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011316","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011316","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The ability to acquire abstract knowledge is a hallmark of human intelligence and is believed by many to be one of the core differences between humans and neural network models. Agents can be endowed with an inductive bias towards abstraction through meta-learning, where they are trained on a distribution of tasks that share some abstract structure that can be learned and applied. However, because neural networks are hard to interpret, it can be difficult to tell whether agents have learned the underlying abstraction, or alternatively statistical patterns that are characteristic of that abstraction. In this work, we compare the performance of humans and agents in a meta-reinforcement learning paradigm in which tasks are generated from abstract rules. We define a novel methodology for building \"task metamers\" that closely match the statistics of the abstract tasks but use a different underlying generative process, and evaluate performance on both abstract and metamer tasks. We find that humans perform better at abstract tasks than metamer tasks whereas common neural network architectures typically perform worse on the abstract tasks than the matched metamers. This work provides a foundation for characterizing differences between humans and machine learning that can be used in future work towards developing machines with more human-like behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10497163/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10586605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Rapid memory encoding in a recurrent network model with behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity. 具有行为时间尺度突触可塑性的递归网络模型中的快速记忆编码。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-25 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011139
Pan Ye Li, Alex Roxin
{"title":"Rapid memory encoding in a recurrent network model with behavioral time scale synaptic plasticity.","authors":"Pan Ye Li,&nbsp;Alex Roxin","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011139","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011139","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Episodic memories are formed after a single exposure to novel stimuli. The plasticity mechanisms underlying such fast learning still remain largely unknown. Recently, it was shown that cells in area CA1 of the hippocampus of mice could form or shift their place fields after a single traversal of a virtual linear track. In-vivo intracellular recordings in CA1 cells revealed that previously silent inputs from CA3 could be switched on when they occurred within a few seconds of a dendritic plateau potential (PP) in the post-synaptic cell, a phenomenon dubbed Behavioral Time-scale Plasticity (BTSP). A recently developed computational framework for BTSP in which the dynamics of synaptic traces related to the pre-synaptic activity and post-synaptic PP are explicitly modelled, can account for experimental findings. Here we show that this model of plasticity can be further simplified to a 1D map which describes changes to the synaptic weights after a single trial. We use a temporally symmetric version of this map to study the storage of a large number of spatial memories in a recurrent network, such as CA3. Specifically, the simplicity of the map allows us to calculate the correlation of the synaptic weight matrix with any given past environment analytically. We show that the calculated memory trace can be used to predict the emergence and stability of bump attractors in a high dimensional neural network model endowed with BTSP.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10484462/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10538163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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TFOFinder: Python program for identifying purine-only double-stranded stretches in the predicted secondary structure(s) of RNA targets. TFOFinder:Python程序,用于识别预测的RNA靶标二级结构中仅嘌呤的双链延伸。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-25 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011418
Atara Neugroschl, Irina E Catrina
{"title":"TFOFinder: Python program for identifying purine-only double-stranded stretches in the predicted secondary structure(s) of RNA targets.","authors":"Atara Neugroschl,&nbsp;Irina E Catrina","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011418","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011418","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nucleic acid probes are valuable tools in biology and chemistry and are indispensable for PCR amplification of DNA, RNA quantification and visualization, and downregulation of gene expression. Recently, triplex-forming oligonucleotides (TFO) have received increased attention due to their improved selectivity and sensitivity in recognizing purine-rich double-stranded RNA regions at physiological pH by incorporating backbone and base modifications. For example, triplex-forming peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligomers have been used for imaging a structured RNA in cells and inhibiting influenza A replication. Although a handful of programs are available to identify triplex target sites (TTS) in DNA, none are available that find such regions in structured RNAs. Here, we describe TFOFinder, a Python program that facilitates the identification of intramolecular purine-only RNA duplexes that are amenable to forming parallel triple helices (pyrimidine/purine/pyrimidine) and the design of the corresponding TFO(s). We performed genome- and transcriptome-wide analyses of TTS in Drosophila melanogaster and found that only 0.3% (123) of total unique transcripts (35,642) show the potential of forming 12-purine long triplex forming sites that contain at least one guanine. Using minimization algorithms, we predicted the secondary structure(s) of these transcripts, and using TFOFinder, we found that 97 (79%) of the identified 123 transcripts are predicted to fold to form at least one TTS for parallel triple helix formation. The number of transcripts with potential purine TTS increases when the strict search conditions are relaxed by decreasing the length of the probe or by allowing up to two pyrimidine inversions or 1-nucleotide bulge in the target site. These results are encouraging for the use of modified triplex forming probes for live imaging of endogenous structured RNA targets, such as pre-miRNAs, and inhibition of target-specific translation and viral replication.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10484449/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10241462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Flux balance analysis-based metabolic modeling of microbial secondary metabolism: Current status and outlook. 基于通量平衡分析的微生物二次代谢代谢建模:现状与展望。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-24 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011391
Sizhe Qiu, Aidong Yang, Hong Zeng
{"title":"Flux balance analysis-based metabolic modeling of microbial secondary metabolism: Current status and outlook.","authors":"Sizhe Qiu,&nbsp;Aidong Yang,&nbsp;Hong Zeng","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011391","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In microorganisms, different from primary metabolism for cellular growth, secondary metabolism is for ecological interactions and stress responses and an important source of natural products widely used in various areas such as pharmaceutics and food additives. With advancements of sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools, a large number of biosynthetic gene clusters of secondary metabolites have been discovered from microbial genomes. However, due to challenges from the difficulty of genome-scale pathway reconstruction and the limitation of conventional flux balance analysis (FBA) on secondary metabolism, the quantitative modeling of secondary metabolism is poorly established, in contrast to that of primary metabolism. This review first discusses current efforts on the reconstruction of secondary metabolic pathways in genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs), as well as related FBA-based modeling techniques. Additionally, potential extensions of FBA are suggested to improve the prediction accuracy of secondary metabolite production. As this review posits, biosynthetic pathway reconstruction for various secondary metabolites will become automated and a modeling framework capturing secondary metabolism onset will enhance the predictive power. Expectedly, an improved FBA-based modeling workflow will facilitate quantitative study of secondary metabolism and in silico design of engineering strategies for natural product production.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10449171/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10135371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Mathematical modeling indicates that regulatory inhibition of CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity can limit efficacy of IL-15 immunotherapy in cases of high pre-treatment SIV viral load. 数学模型表明,在高预处理SIV病毒载量的情况下,CD8+T细胞毒性的调节性抑制可以限制IL-15免疫疗法的疗效。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-24 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011425
Jonathan W Cody, Amy L Ellis-Connell, Shelby L O'Connor, Elsje Pienaar
{"title":"Mathematical modeling indicates that regulatory inhibition of CD8+ T cell cytotoxicity can limit efficacy of IL-15 immunotherapy in cases of high pre-treatment SIV viral load.","authors":"Jonathan W Cody,&nbsp;Amy L Ellis-Connell,&nbsp;Shelby L O'Connor,&nbsp;Elsje Pienaar","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011425","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011425","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Immunotherapeutic cytokines can activate immune cells against cancers and chronic infections. N-803 is an IL-15 superagonist that expands CD8+ T cells and increases their cytotoxicity. N-803 also temporarily reduced viral load in a limited subset of non-human primates infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a model of HIV. However, viral suppression has not been observed in all SIV cohorts and may depend on pre-treatment viral load and the corresponding effects on CD8+ T cells. Starting from an existing mechanistic mathematical model of N-803 immunotherapy of SIV, we develop a model that includes activation of SIV-specific and non-SIV-specific CD8+ T cells by antigen, inflammation, and N-803. Also included is a regulatory counter-response that inhibits CD8+ T cell proliferation and function, representing the effects of immune checkpoint molecules and immunosuppressive cells. We simultaneously calibrate the model to two separate SIV cohorts. The first cohort had low viral loads prior to treatment (≈3-4 log viral RNA copy equivalents (CEQ)/mL), and N-803 treatment transiently suppressed viral load. The second had higher pre-treatment viral loads (≈5-7 log CEQ/mL) and saw no consistent virus suppression with N-803. The mathematical model can replicate the viral and CD8+ T cell dynamics of both cohorts based on different pre-treatment viral loads and different levels of regulatory inhibition of CD8+ T cells due to those viral loads (i.e. initial conditions of model). Our predictions are validated by additional data from these and other SIV cohorts. While both cohorts had high numbers of activated SIV-specific CD8+ T cells in simulations, viral suppression was precluded in the high viral load cohort due to elevated inhibition of cytotoxicity. Thus, we mathematically demonstrate how the pre-treatment viral load can influence immunotherapeutic efficacy, highlighting the in vivo conditions and combination therapies that could maximize efficacy and improve treatment outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10482305/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10235074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Inferring gene regulatory networks using transcriptional profiles as dynamical attractors. 利用转录谱作为动态引诱因子推断基因调控网络。
IF 4.3 2区 生物学
PLoS Computational Biology Pub Date : 2023-08-22 eCollection Date: 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010991
Ruihao Li, Jordan C Rozum, Morgan M Quail, Mohammad N Qasim, Suzanne S Sindi, Clarissa J Nobile, Réka Albert, Aaron D Hernday
{"title":"Inferring gene regulatory networks using transcriptional profiles as dynamical attractors.","authors":"Ruihao Li,&nbsp;Jordan C Rozum,&nbsp;Morgan M Quail,&nbsp;Mohammad N Qasim,&nbsp;Suzanne S Sindi,&nbsp;Clarissa J Nobile,&nbsp;Réka Albert,&nbsp;Aaron D Hernday","doi":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010991","DOIUrl":"10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010991","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Genetic regulatory networks (GRNs) regulate the flow of genetic information from the genome to expressed messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and thus are critical to controlling the phenotypic characteristics of cells. Numerous methods exist for profiling mRNA transcript levels and identifying protein-DNA binding interactions at the genome-wide scale. These enable researchers to determine the structure and output of transcriptional regulatory networks, but uncovering the complete structure and regulatory logic of GRNs remains a challenge. The field of GRN inference aims to meet this challenge using computational modeling to derive the structure and logic of GRNs from experimental data and to encode this knowledge in Boolean networks, Bayesian networks, ordinary differential equation (ODE) models, or other modeling frameworks. However, most existing models do not incorporate dynamic transcriptional data since it has historically been less widely available in comparison to \"static\" transcriptional data. We report the development of an evolutionary algorithm-based ODE modeling approach (named EA) that integrates kinetic transcription data and the theory of attractor matching to infer GRN architecture and regulatory logic. Our method outperformed six leading GRN inference methods, none of which incorporate kinetic transcriptional data, in predicting regulatory connections among TFs when applied to a small-scale engineered synthetic GRN in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Moreover, we demonstrate the potential of our method to predict unknown transcriptional profiles that would be produced upon genetic perturbation of the GRN governing a two-state cellular phenotypic switch in Candida albicans. We established an iterative refinement strategy to facilitate candidate selection for experimentation; the experimental results in turn provide validation or improvement for the model. In this way, our GRN inference approach can expedite the development of a sophisticated mathematical model that can accurately describe the structure and dynamics of the in vivo GRN.</p>","PeriodicalId":49688,"journal":{"name":"PLoS Computational Biology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10473541/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10141142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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