Functions as Descriptions of Biological Patterns

2015 ◽  
pp. 43-83
Keyword(s):  
Biological Patterns

scholarly journals Correcting for experiment-specific variability in expression compendia can remove underlying signals

GigaScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra J Lee ◽  
YoSon Park ◽  
Georgia Doing ◽  
Deborah A Hogan ◽  
Casey S Greene
Keyword(s):  
Gene Expression ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Original Signal ◽  
Batch Effects ◽  
Technical Variability ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statistical Correction ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Data Collections ◽  
Biological Patterns

Abstract Motivation In the past two decades, scientists in different laboratories have assayed gene expression from millions of samples. These experiments can be combined into compendia and analyzed collectively to extract novel biological patterns. Technical variability, or "batch effects," may result from combining samples collected and processed at different times and in different settings. Such variability may distort our ability to extract true underlying biological patterns. As more integrative analysis methods arise and data collections get bigger, we must determine how technical variability affects our ability to detect desired patterns when many experiments are combined. Objective We sought to determine the extent to which an underlying signal was masked by technical variability by simulating compendia comprising data aggregated across multiple experiments. Method We developed a generative multi-layer neural network to simulate compendia of gene expression experiments from large-scale microbial and human datasets. We compared simulated compendia before and after introducing varying numbers of sources of undesired variability. Results The signal from a baseline compendium was obscured when the number of added sources of variability was small. Applying statistical correction methods rescued the underlying signal in these cases. However, as the number of sources of variability increased, it became easier to detect the original signal even without correction. In fact, statistical correction reduced our power to detect the underlying signal. Conclusion When combining a modest number of experiments, it is best to correct for experiment-specific noise. However, when many experiments are combined, statistical correction reduces our ability to extract underlying patterns.

scholarly journals Publisher Correction: Spatial modeling of biological patterns shows multiscale organization of Arabidopsis thaliana heterochromatin

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Arpòn ◽  
Kaori Sakai ◽  
Valérie Gaudin ◽  
Philippe Andrey
Keyword(s):  
Arabidopsis Thaliana ◽  
Spatial Modeling ◽  
Biological Patterns

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

A system for recognition of biological patterns in toxins using computational intelligence

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Penna Resende de Carvalho ◽  
Thais Melo Mendes ◽  
Ricardo de Souza Ribeiro ◽  
Ricardo Fortuna ◽  
Jose Marcos Veneroso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
Biological Patterns

Biological Patterns: Order in Space and Time

2012 ◽  
pp. 893-950
Author(s):  
Rob Phillips ◽  
Jane Kondev ◽  
Julie Theriot ◽  
Hernan G. Garcia ◽  
Nigel Orme
Keyword(s):  
Space And Time ◽  
Biological Patterns

scholarly journals Batch Effect Removal via Batch-Free Encoding

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uri Shaham
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Batch Effect ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Rna Seq ◽  
Batch Effects ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Downstream Analysis ◽  
Biological Patterns

AbstractBiological measurements often contain systematic errors, also known as “batch effects”, which may invalidate downstream analysis when not handled correctly. The problem of removing batch effects is of major importance in the biological community. Despite recent advances in this direction via deep learning techniques, most current methods may not fully preserve the true biological patterns the data contains. In this work we propose a deep learning approach for batch effect removal. The crux of our approach is learning a batch-free encoding of the data, representing its intrinsic biological properties, but not batch effects. In addition, we also encode the systematic factors through a decoding mechanism and require accurate reconstruction of the data. Altogether, this allows us to fully preserve the true biological patterns represented in the data. Experimental results are reported on data obtained from two high throughput technologies, mass cytometry and single-cell RNA-seq. Beyond good performance on training data, we also observe that our system performs well on test data obtained from new patients, which was not available at training time. Our method is easy to handle, a publicly available code can be found at https://github.com/ushaham/BatchEffectRemoval2018.

scholarly journals Biological patterns of the Brazilian sardine in the purse seine fishery off Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Schroeder ◽  
Angelica Petermann ◽  
Alberto Correia ◽  
Paulo Schwingel
Keyword(s):  
Purse Seine ◽  
Biological Patterns ◽  
Purse Seine Fishery

scholarly journals Panoramic stitching of heterogeneous single-cell transcriptomic data

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Hie ◽  
Bryan Bryson ◽  
Bonnie Berger
Keyword(s):  
Single Cell ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Cell Type ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Set Integration ◽  
Biological Patterns ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

AbstractResearchers are generating single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) profiles of diverse biological systems1–4 and every cell type in the human body.5 Leveraging this data to gain unprecedented insight into biology and disease will require assembling heterogeneous cell populations across multiple experiments, laboratories, and technologies. Although methods for scRNA-seq data integration exist6,7, they often naively merge data sets together even when the data sets have no cell types in common, leading to results that do not correspond to real biological patterns. Here we present Scanorama, inspired by algorithms for panorama stitching, that overcomes the limitations of existing methods to enable accurate, heterogeneous scRNA-seq data set integration. Our strategy identifies and merges the shared cell types among all pairs of data sets and is orders of magnitude faster than existing techniques. We use Scanorama to combine 105,476 cells from 26 diverse scRNA-seq experiments across 9 different technologies into a single comprehensive reference, demonstrating how Scanorama can be used to obtain a more complete picture of cellular function across a wide range of scRNA-seq experiments.

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