Computational and Systems Biology

Computational and Systems Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    An engineered multi-step differentiation program in Escherichia coli for self-organized spatial patterning

    Emanuele Boni, Hélène Siboulet ... Yolanda Schaerli
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    A real-time, multi-animal model for automatic face detection and identification of freely moving common marmosets based on YOLOv8 algorithms

    Jiayue Yang, James Wang, Justine Cléry
    A generalizable computational approach automatically identifies individual common marmosets to serve as support for presenting and analyzing behavioral tasks without relying on extensive manual work.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Developmental Biology

    Single-cell spatial mapping reveals reproducible cell type organization and spatially dependent gene expression in gastruloids

    Catherine Triandafillou, Pranav Sompalle ... Arjun Raj
    Detailed, single-cell spatial gene expression across multiple gastruloids highlights macro-scale organizational consistency, simultaneous with variance in meso-scale patterning.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Opening the black box toward a modular approach to spike sorting

    Samuel Garcia, Chris Halcrow ... Pierre Yger
    Modularized spike sorting pipelines can identify performance bottlenecks, lower contribution barriers, and enable the development of highly accurate algorithms to turn extracellular recordings into spikes.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Real-time closed-loop feedback system for mouse mesoscale cortical signal and movement control

    Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Timothy H Murphy
    The open-source closed-loop system enables mice to learn modulation of cortical activity or movement by providing a platform for testing brain-behavior relationships in motor learning and neurorehabilitation research.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    MicroRNA spatial profiling for assessing drug efficacy in BRCA1-related triple-negative breast tumors

    Omar N Mohd, Lin Wang ... Patrick S Doyle
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Computational and Systems Biology

    Role of desolvation on biomolecular liquid-liquid phase separation

    Kai Zhang, Zhiyu Peng ... Wei Wang
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Imputation of structural variants using a multi-ancestry long-read sequencing panel enables identification of disease associations

    Boris Noyvert, A Mesut Erzurumluoglu ... Zhihao Ding
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Linear antibody epitope prediction using AlphaFold2

    Jacob DeRoo, James S Terry ... Brian J Geiss
    AlphaFold2 can be used to accurately determine linear epitopes of antibodies with known heavy and light chain sequences.
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    Philosophy of Biology: The power of theory in the life sciences

    Jacob L Fine, Finn Creeggan ... Adam MR Groh
    Theory can help address cell and molecular biology’s major challenges, particularly those arising from large omics datasets.

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