Julia for biologists

E Roesch, JG Greener, AL MacLean, H Nassar… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Major computational challenges exist in relation to the collection, curation, processing and
analysis of large genomic and imaging datasets, as well as the simulation of larger and …

Statistical and computational challenges for whole cell modelling

MPH Stumpf - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Mathematical modelling of whole biological cells opens up new opportunities for
fundamental and applied biology. In particular in the context of synthetic biology, it opens up …

Efficient Bayesian inference for stochastic agent-based models

ACS Jørgensen, A Ghosh, M Sturrock… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The modelling of many real-world problems relies on computationally heavy simulations of
randomly interacting individuals or agents. However, the values of the parameters that …

pyABC: Efficient and robust easy-to-use approximate Bayesian computation

Y Schälte, E Klinger, E Alamoudi… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The Python package pyABC provides a framework for approximate Bayesian computation
(ABC), a likelihood-free parameter inference method popular in many research areas. At its …

HAPNEST: efficient, large-scale generation and evaluation of synthetic datasets for genotypes and phenotypes

S Wharrie, Z Yang, V Raj, R Monti, R Gupta… - …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Existing methods for simulating synthetic genotype and phenotype datasets have
limited scalability, constraining their usability for large-scale analyses. Moreover, a …

Collocation based training of neural ordinary differential equations

E Roesch, C Rackauckas, MPH Stumpf - Statistical applications in …, 2021 - degruyter.com
The predictive power of machine learning models often exceeds that of mechanistic
modeling approaches. However, the interpretability of purely data-driven models, without …

Virtual screening of novel mTOR inhibitors for the potential treatment of human colorectal cancer

NN Zhang, YJ Ban, YJ Wang, SY He, PP Qi, T Bi… - Bioorganic …, 2023 - Elsevier
The abnormal activation of the mTOR pathway is closely related to the occurrence and
progression of cancer, especially colorectal cancer. In this study, a rational virtual screening …

The minimal intrinsic stochasticity of constitutively expressed eukaryotic genes is sub-Poissonian

DE Weidemann, J Holehouse, A Singh, R Grima… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Gene expression inherently gives rise to stochastic variation (“noise”) in the production of
gene products. Minimizing noise is crucial for ensuring reliable cellular functions. However …

Efficient exact inference for dynamical systems with noisy measurements using sequential approximate Bayesian computation

Y Schälte, J Hasenauer - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is an increasingly popular
method for likelihood-free parameter inference in systems biology and other fields of …

[PDF][PDF] CalibrateEmulateSample. jl: Accelerated Parametric Uncertainty Quantification

R Oliver, M Bieli, A Garbuno-Iñigo… - Journal of Open …, 2024 - joss.theoj.org
A Julia language (Bezanson et al., 2017) package providing practical and modular
implementation of “Calibrate, Emulate, Sample”(Cleary et al., 2021), hereafter CES, an …