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ReviewNPJ systems biology and applications2025

Dynamical systems theory as an organizing principle for single-cell biology.

Samia Islam, Sudin Bhattacharya

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Review in NPJ systems biology and applications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
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  4. Matters of life and death in computational cell biology.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Samia IslamInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
Sudin BhattacharyaInstitute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA. sbhattac@msu.edu.

Funding

VOLATILE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS--QUANTIFYING THEIR MOVEMENT IN THE UNSATURATED ZONEP42ES004911 · NIEHS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI Brian P. Johnson · 1989 to 2026
$64.9M
Integrative transcriptional and epigenomic modeling of xenobiotic-activated gene regulatory networksR01ES031937 · NIEHS · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BHATTACHARYA, SUDIN, CUDDAPAH, SURESH · 2020 to 2024
$2.4M
NIEHS NIH HHS P42 ES004911NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES031937
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The emergence of single-cell transcriptomics has given us novel views of gene expression heterogeneity and cellular trajectories in development and disease at unprecedented resolution. However, an overarching theoretical framework to interpret single-cell gene expression data is lacking. Here we argue that dynamical systems theory can provide an interpretable, causal, and quantitative perspective to understand and analyze these enormously rich data sets, in addition to yielding potential benefits for health care.

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Single-Cell AnalysisSystems BiologySystems TheoryGene Expression ProfilingHumansTranscriptome

Identifiers

PMID40750599
PMCPMC12316871

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