Enhancing scientific discoveries in molecular biology with deep generative models

R Lopez, A Gayoso, N Yosef - Molecular systems biology, 2020 - embopress.org
Generative models provide a well‐established statistical framework for evaluating
uncertainty and deriving conclusions from large data sets especially in the presence of …

An empirical Bayes method for differential expression analysis of single cells with deep generative models

P Boyeau, J Regier, A Gayoso… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Detecting differentially expressed genes is important for characterizing subpopulations of
cells. In scRNA-seq data, however, nuisance variation due to technical factors like …

Decision-making with auto-encoding variational Bayes

R Lopez, P Boyeau, N Yosef… - Advances in Neural …, 2020 - proceedings.neurips.cc
To make decisions based on a model fit with auto-encoding variational Bayes (AEVB),
practitioners often let the variational distribution serve as a surrogate for the posterior …

Time-dependence of graph theory metrics in functional connectivity analysis

S Chiang, A Cassese, M Guindani, M Vannucci… - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Brain graphs provide a useful way to computationally model the network structure of the
connectome, and this has led to increasing interest in the use of graph theory to quantitate …

BICOSS: Bayesian iterative conditional stochastic search for GWAS

J Williams, MAR Ferreira, T Ji - BMC bioinformatics, 2022 - Springer
Background Single marker analysis (SMA) with linear mixed models for genome wide
association studies has uncovered the contribution of genetic variants to many observed …

Transcriptome-wide spatial RNA profiling maps the cellular architecture of the developing human neocortex

K Roberts, A Aivazidis, V Kleshchevnikov, T Li, R Fropf… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Spatial genomic technologies can map gene expression in tissues, but provide limited
potential for transcriptome-wide discovery approaches and application to fixed tissue …

BG2: Bayesian variable selection in generalized linear mixed models with nonlocal priors for non-Gaussian GWAS data

S Xu, J Williams, MAR Ferreira - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWASes) aim to identify single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with a given phenotype. A common approach for the …

BGWAS: Bayesian variable selection in linear mixed models with nonlocal priors for genome-wide association studies

J Williams, S Xu, MAR Ferreira - BMC bioinformatics, 2023 - Springer
Background Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) seek to identify single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs) that cause observed phenotypes. However, with highly correlated …

Deep generative models for detecting differential expression in single cells

P Boyeau, R Lopez, J Regier, A Gayoso, MI Jordan… - bioRxiv, 2019 - biorxiv.org
Detecting differentially expressed genes is important for characterizing subpopulations of
cells. However, in scRNA-seq data, nuisance variation due to technical factors like …

Modeling allele-specific expression at the gene and SNP levels simultaneously by a Bayesian logistic mixed regression model

J Xie, T Ji, MAR Ferreira, Y Li, BN Patel, RM Rivera - BMC bioinformatics, 2019 - Springer
Background High-throughput sequencing experiments, which can determine allele origins,
have been used to assess genome-wide allele-specific expression. Despite the amount of …