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ArticleInternational journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering2020

Persistent spectral graph.

Rui Wang, Duc Duy Nguyen, Guo-Wei Wei

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Article in International journal for numerical methods in biomedical engineering, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 91 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

91 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  9. Persistent Stanley-Reisner Theory.Foundations of data science (Springfield, Mo.) · 2026
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  19. Multiscale Cell-Cell Interactive Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  20. Machine learning predictions from unpredictable chaos.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rui WangDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.
Duc Duy NguyenDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.
Guo-Wei WeiDepartment of Mathematics, Michigan State University, Michigan, USA.

Funding

Synergistic integration of topology and machine learning for the predictions of protein-ligand binding affinities and mutation impactsR01GM126189 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI WEI, GUOWEI · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
Structural and Mechanistic Characterization of the ZIP Metal TransportersR01GM129004 · NIGMS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI HU, JIAN · 2018 to 2020
$593k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM129004NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM126189NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM129004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistent homology is constrained to purely topological persistence, while multiscale graphs account only for geometric information. This work introduces persistent spectral theory to create a unified low-dimensional multiscale paradigm for revealing topological persistence and extracting geometric shapes from high-dimensional datasets. For a point-cloud dataset, a filtration procedure is used to generate a sequence of chain complexes and associated families of simplicial complexes and chains, from which we construct persistent combinatorial Laplacian matrices. We show that a full set of topological persistence can be completely recovered from the harmonic persistent spectra, that is, the spectra that have zero eigenvalues, of the persistent combinatorial Laplacian matrices. However, non-harmonic spectra of the Laplacian matrices induced by the filtration offer another powerful tool for data analysis, modeling, and prediction. In this work, fullerene stability is predicted by using both harmonic spectra and non-harmonic persistent spectra, while the latter spectra are successfully devised to analyze the structure of fullerenes and model protein flexibility, which cannot be straightforwardly extracted from the current persistent homology. The proposed method is found to provide excellent predictions of the protein B-factors for which current popular biophysical models break down.

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Data AnalysisProteinsProteinspersistent spectral analysispersistent spectral graphpersistent spectral theoryspectral data analysis

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PMID32515170
PMCPMC7719081

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