Journal Club

We will discuss about “Frequency Modulation of Transcriptional Bursting Enables Sensitive and Rapid Gene Regulation”, Li et. al., Cell Systems, 2018 Abstract Gene regulation is a complex non-equilibrium process. Here, we show that quantitating the temporal regulation of key gene states (transcriptionally inactive, active, and refractory) provides a parsimonious framework for analyzing gene regulation. Our …

We will discuss about “TimeCycle: Topology Inspired MEthod for the Detection of Cycling Transcripts in Circadian Time-Series Data”, Ness-Cohn and Braun, Bioinformatics, 2021 Abstract Motivation: The circadian rhythm drives the oscillatory expression of thousands of genes across all tissues. The recent revolution in high-throughput transcriptomics, coupled with the significant implicatins of the circadian clock for …

We will discuss about "Cellular signaling beyond the Wiener-Kolmogorov limit", Weisenberger et al., bioRxiv, 2021 Abstract: Accurate propagation of signals through stochastic biochemical networks involves significant expenditure of cellular resources. The same is true for regulatory mechanisms that suppress fluctuations in biomolecular populations. Wiener-Kolmogorov (WK) optimal noise filter theory, originally developed for engineering problems, has …

We will discuss about "Machine learning of stochastic gene network phenotypes", Park et al., bioRxiv, 2019 Abstract: A recurrent challenge in biology is the development of predictive quantitative models because most molecular and cellular parameters have unknown values and realistic models are analytically intractable. While the dynamics of the system can be analyzed via computer …

We will discuss about “Nonlinear delay differential equations and their application to modeling biological network motifs”, Glass et al., Nature Communications, 2021 Abstract: Biological regulatory systems, such as cell signaling networks, nervous systems and ecological webs, consist of complex dynamical interactions among many components. Network motif models focus on small sub-networks to provide quantitative insight …

We will discuss about “The Oscillation Amplitude, Not the Frequency of Cytosolic Calcium, Regulates Apoptosis Induction ”, Qi et al., iScience, 2020 Abstract: Although a rising concentration of cytosolic Ca2+ has long been recognized as an essential signal for apoptosis, the dynamical mechanisms by which Ca2+ regulates apoptosis are not clear yet. To address this, we constructed …

We will discuss about “A spatio-temporal model to reveal oscillator phenotypes in molecular clocks: Parameter estimation elucidates circadian gene transcription dynamics in single-cells”, Unosson et al., bioRxiv, 2021 We propose a stochastic distributed delay model together with a Markov random field prior and a measurement model for bioluminescence-reporting to analyse spatiotemporal gene expression in intact …

We will discuss about “Balanced truncation for model reduction of biological oscillators”, Padoan et al., Biological Cybernetics, 2021 Model reduction is a central problem in mathematical biology. Reduced order models enable modeling of a biological system at different levels of complexity and the quantitative analysis of its properties, like sensitivity to parameter variations and resilience …

We will discuss about “Filtering and inference for stochastic oscillators with distributed delays”, Calderazzo et al., Bioinformatics, 2018 at the Journal Club Motivation The time evolution of molecular species involved in biochemical reaction networks often arises from complex stochastic processes involving many species and reaction events. Inference for such systems is profoundly challenged by the …

We will discuss about “Detecting and quantifying causal associations in large nonlinear time series datasets”, Runge et al., Science Advances, 2019 Identifying causal relationships and quantifying their strength from observational time series data are key problems in disciplines dealing with complex dynamical systems such as the Earth system or the human body. Data-driven causal inference …

We will discuss about “Solving Singular Control Problems in Mathematical Biology, Using PASA”, Atkins et al., arXiv, 2020 In this paper, we will demonstrate how to use a nonlinear polyhedral constrained optimization solver called the Polyhedral Active Set Algorithm (PASA) for solving a general singular control problem. We present methods of discretizing a general optimal …

We will discuss about “A Random Matrix Theory Approach to Denoise Single-Cell Data”, Aparicio et al., Patterns, 2020 Single-cell technologies provide the opportunity to identify new cellular states. However, a major obstacle to the identification of biological signals is noise in single-cell data. In addition, single-cell data are very sparse. We propose a new method …