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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

On learning functions over biological sequence space: relating Gaussian process priors, regularization, and gauge fixing.

Samantha Petti, Carlos Martí-Gómez, Justin B Kinney, Juannan Zhou, David M McCandlish

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Samantha PettiDepartment of Mathematics, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 02155.
Carlos Martí-GómezSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724.
Justin B KinneySimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724.
Juannan ZhouDepartment of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611.
David M McCandlishSimons Center for Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 11724.

Funding

A unified quantitative modeling strategy for multiplex assays of variant effectR01HG011787 · NHGRI · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI JUSTIN B. KINNEY · 2022 to 2026
$4.1M
Computational analysis of complex genetic interactionsR35GM133613 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI David Martin McCandlish · 2019 to 2026
$3.5M
Biophysical modeling of cis-regulatory complexes in transcription and splicing using massively parallel reporter assaysR35GM133777 · NIGMS · COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY · PI KINNEY, JUSTIN B. · 2019 to 2023
$2.4M
Modeling non-additive genetic mechanisms for complex traitsR35GM154908 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI Juannan Zhou · 2024 to 2026
$1.0M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG011787NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133613NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM133777NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM154908Wellcome Trust
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Abstract

Mappings from biological sequences (DNA, RNA, protein) to quantitative measures of sequence functionality play an important role in contemporary biology. We are interested in the related tasks of (i) inferring predictive sequence-to-function maps and (ii) decomposing sequence-function maps to elucidate the contributions of individual subsequences. Because each sequence-function map can be written as a weighted sum over subsequences in multiple ways, meaningfully interpreting these weights requires "gauge-fixing," i.e., defining a unique representation for each map. Recent work has established that most existing gauge-fixed representations arise as the unique solutions to

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