The proceedings contain 11 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Mathematical and computational Oncology. The topics include: Discriminative Localized Sparse Representations for Breast Cancer Screening;Ac...
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(纸本)9783030645106
The proceedings contain 11 papers. The special focus in this conference is on Mathematical and computational Oncology. The topics include: Discriminative Localized Sparse Representations for Breast Cancer Screening;Activation vs. Organization: Prognostic Implications of T and B Cell Features of the PDAC Microenvironment;on the Use of Neural Networks with Censored Time-to-Event Data;tugHall: A Tool to Reproduce Darwinian Evolution of Cancer Cells for Simulation-Based Personalized Medicine;The Potential of Single Cell RNA-Sequencing Data for the Prediction of Gastric Cancer Serum Biomarkers;theoretical Foundation of the Performance of Phylogeny-Based Somatic Variant Detection;preface;plasticity in Cancer Cell Populations: biology, Mathematics and Philosophy of Cancer;Detecting Subclones from Spatially Resolved RNA-Seq Data.
Learning in contexts where measuring the performance of the agents is either impossible or misleading requires different approaches in the search of the solution. These problems require either a complete exploration o...
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(纸本)9781728190495
Learning in contexts where measuring the performance of the agents is either impossible or misleading requires different approaches in the search of the solution. These problems require either a complete exploration of the search space, or the use of reward-independent approaches, which may not be feasible in some situations. The Novelty Producing Synaptic Plasticity (NPSP) algorithm was recently proposed as a means to obtain successful learning in such contexts, by evolving synaptic plasticity rules able to generate as many novel behaviors as possible. Here, we consider a deceptive maze navigation task and extend the NPSP paradigm to a multi-objective case, by applying NSGA2 to maximizing a goal-agnostic metric (novelty) while minimizing a goal-aware metric (distance), in order to find the possible trade-offs. We then introduce an additional goal-agnostic metric (exploration) and apply MAP-Elites to “illuminate” the feature space projected by novelty and exploration. Lastly, we consider modified settings where 1) sensors are affected by random noise, and 2) the sensor perception is augmented, in order to assess the generalizability of the evolved synaptic rules across settings. Overall, our results show that both multi-objective and MAP-Elites based NPSP can find successful solutions in the different settings of the task.
Reward design in reinforcement learning should be less burdensome on the designer and be able to respond to changes in the environment and task. Therefore, we are studying the Self-generation of Reward, a method of re...
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(纸本)9781728190495
Reward design in reinforcement learning should be less burdensome on the designer and be able to respond to changes in the environment and task. Therefore, we are studying the Self-generation of Reward, a method of reward design that does not depend on changes in the environment or task. Self-generation of Reward is a method in which an agent generates its own reward by evaluating sensor information from the outside world from multiple perspectives, using the sense of danger avoidance of biological life as an index. The only desired indicator of danger avoidance is a negative evaluation when the sensor information is dangerous. However, when the state is not dangerous, the evaluation is positive. Positive evaluation means that the agent is desired to achieve the goal, but the non-dangerous state has nothing to do with achieving the goal. Therefore, there is a problem that the measure of risk avoidance includes the evaluation of the achievement of undesired goals. To solve this problem, we propose a method to control whether sensor information is evaluated or not. Improve the indicator of risk avoidance to generate only negative evaluations by not including positive evaluations in the sensor evaluation if they are indicated. In this study, we conducted a simulation experiment using path finding on a grid map to verify whether the proposed method can be used for learning. As a result, we found that learning was possible by adjusting the reward given to each action.
The study and analysis of functional annotations of human genes and gene variants are important for understanding functional genomics and gene-disease associations. This paper investigates the process of functional an...
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(纸本)9781728114620
The study and analysis of functional annotations of human genes and gene variants are important for understanding functional genomics and gene-disease associations. This paper investigates the process of functional annotation of gene variants using the gene ontology. The paper also presents a method for annotating gene variants with biological process terms from the gene ontology. The presented method relies on identifying the enriched biological processes of the genes associated with the given genetic variants. With significant level of p<0.02, the results found to be biologically significant. Furthermore, we found that certain ontology annotations e.g. {GO:0031325;positive regulation of cellular metabolic process} are more connected with mutations via certain genes compared with normal biological process terms in the gene ontology.
The papers in this special section were presented at the 12th International symposium on bioinformatics Research and Application (ISBRA), which was held at Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus on June 5-8, 2016.
The papers in this special section were presented at the 12th International symposium on bioinformatics Research and Application (ISBRA), which was held at Belarusian State University in Minsk, Belarus on June 5-8, 2016.
Protein-protein interactions can be modeled as networks. The huge amount of produced Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) data has many applications in biological studies. These studies improved human knowledge in the li...
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(纸本)9781728114620
Protein-protein interactions can be modeled as networks. The huge amount of produced Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) data has many applications in biological studies. These studies improved human knowledge in the life process and diseases. One of these studies is PPI network alignment, which finds the similarity between PPI networks as a biological similarity. Aligning these networks is important to investigate evolutionary pathways or protein complexes. The main challenge of all global PPI network alignment is to improve both accuracy and efficiency. In this research, the accuracy and efficiency of global PPI network alignment are improved by using the genetic algorithm instead of the greedy algorithm and applied in HubAlign framework. The performance of the proposed method is compared with HubAlign based on the total execution time for the alignment process and the correctness of the results of the aligned networks. The new approach enhanced the overall accuracy and reduce execution time compared to the HubAlign approach.
Robinson-Foulds(RF) is a widely used metric in various phylogenetic analyses including clustering and generating consensus or most-parsimonious trees. Current methods are limited by one or more of the following: 1 ver...
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(数字)9781665497473
ISBN:
(纸本)9781665497480
Robinson-Foulds(RF) is a widely used metric in various phylogenetic analyses including clustering and generating consensus or most-parsimonious trees. Current methods are limited by one or more of the following: 1 versus 1 computation, limited to the basic RF calculation, use one tree collection, are not scalable, and restrict taxa. This paper presents Bipartition Frequency Hash Robinson-Foulds (BFHRF), a scalable and exten-sible approach for computing the average RF between disparate binary evolutionary tree collections. The novelty of our approach is utilizing a bipartition frequency hash data structure to perform parallelized tree versus hash comparisons in substitution of all possible tree versus tree comparisons. The data structure and updated computation algorithm results in an order of magnitude reduction in both runtime and memory usage. It is 39x faster and 22x reduction in memory compared to HashRF, a fast current method. Additionally, the tree collection distribution can be modified for RF variants and variable taxa due to the lack of restrictions imposed by the hash and retention of all bipartitions. Lastly, BFHRF is implemented in a modular way and provides an easy to use installation and interface for calculating the average RF of query trees against a collection of reference trees. https://***
Network graphs appear in a number of important biological data problems, recording information relating to protein-protein interactions, gene regulation, transcription regulation and much more. These graphs are of suc...
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(纸本)9781728114620
Network graphs appear in a number of important biological data problems, recording information relating to protein-protein interactions, gene regulation, transcription regulation and much more. These graphs are of such a significant size that they are impossible for a human to understand. Furthermore, the ever-expanding quantity of such information means that there are storage issues. To help address these issues, it is common for applications to compress nodes to form supernodes of similarly connected components. In previous graph compression studies it was noted that such supernodes often contain points from disparate parts of the graph. This study aims to correct this flaw by only allowing merges to occur within a local neighbourhood rather than across the entire graph. This restriction was found to not only produce more meaningful compressions, but also to reduce the overall distortion created by the compression for two out of three biological networks studied.
computational methods represent an effective mean for the analysis of complex biological processes, such as cell proliferation, especially when combined to well established experimental protocols. In particular, mathe...
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(纸本)9781728114620
computational methods represent an effective mean for the analysis of complex biological processes, such as cell proliferation, especially when combined to well established experimental protocols. In particular, mathematical modeling coupled with computationalintelligence algorithms can be successfully exploited to investigate different aspects of cell population dynamics in the context of tumor growth. To this aim, we defined ProCell, a modeling and simulation framework specifically designed for the investigation of cell proliferation, which makes use of Fuzzy Self-Tuning Particle Swarm Optimization to estimate the unknown parameters of cell population models. ProCell is here applied to the analysis of cell proliferation in acute myeloid leukemia, a hematological malignancy characterized by an inherent intratumoral heterogeneity that plays an important role in disease recurrence and resistance to chemotherapy. ProCell allowed to provide new insights on the intricate organization of cells with highly heterogeneous proliferative potential, and to highlight the important role of different cell types in the progression and evolution of the disease.
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