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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2024

From Noise to Knowledge: Diffusion Probabilistic Model-Based Neural Inference of Gene Regulatory Networks.

Hao Zhu, Donna Slonim

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Article in Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Artificial Intelligence Revolution in Transcriptomics: From Single Cells to Spatial Atlases.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Hao ZhuDepartment of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3386-6076
Donna SlonimDepartment of Computer Science, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

Sex Differences in Fetal Brain-Placental Immune Programming in Maternal ObesityR01HD100022 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI EDLOW, ANDREA GOLDBERG · 2019 to 2021
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NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD100022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding gene regulatory networks (GRNs) is crucial for elucidating cellular mechanisms and advancing therapeutic interventions. Original methods for GRN inference from bulk expression data often struggled with the high dimensionality and inherent noise in the data. Here we introduce RegDiffusion, a new class of Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models focusing on the regulatory effects among feature variables. RegDiffusion introduces Gaussian noise to the input data following a diffusion schedule and uses a neural network with a parameterized adjacency matrix to predict the added noise. We show that using this process, GRNs can be learned effectively with a surprisingly simple model architecture. In our benchmark experiments, RegDiffusion shows superior performance compared to several baseline methods in multiple datasets. We also demonstrate that RegDiffusion can infer biologically meaningful regulatory networks from real-world single-cell data sets with over 15,000 genes in under 5 minutes. This work not only introduces a fresh perspective on GRN inference but also highlights the promising capacity of diffusion-based models in the area of single-cell analysis. The RegDiffusion software package and experiment data are available at https://github.com/TuftsBCB/RegDiffusion.

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Gene Regulatory NetworksModels, StatisticalNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsComputational BiologyHumansModels, GeneticSingle-Cell AnalysisSoftwarenetwork inferencesingle cell analysis and regulatory system

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PMID39387266
PMCPMC11698671

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