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Propagating distributions up directed acyclic graphs.

In a previous article, we considered game trees as graphical models. Adopting an evaluation function that returned a probability distribution over values likely to be taken at a given position, we described how to build a model of uncertainty and use it for utility-directed growth of the search tree and for deciding on a move after search was completed. In some games, such as chess and Othello, the same position can occur more than once, collapsing the game tree to a directed acyclic graph (DAG). This induces correlations among the distributions at sibling nodes. This article discusses some issues that arise in extending our algorithms to a DAG. We give a simply described algorithm for correctly propagating distributions up a game DAG, taking account of dependencies induced by the DAG structure. This algorithm is exponential time in the worst case. We prove that it is #P complete to propagate distributions up a game DAG correctly. We suggest how our exact propagation algorithm can yield a fast but inexact heuristic.

Algorithms↗

Design of graph-based evolutionary algorithms: a case study for chemical process networks.

This paper describes the adaptation of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) to the structural optimization of chemical engineering plants, using rigorous process simulation combined with realistic costing procedures to calculate target function values. To represent chemical engineering plants, a network representation with typed vertices and variable structure will be introduced. For this representation, we introduce a technique on how to create problem specific search operators and apply them in stochastic optimization procedures. The applicability of the approach is demonstrated by a reference example. The design of the algorithms will be oriented at the systematic framework of metric-based evolutionary algorithms (MBEAs). MBEAs are a special class of evolutionary algorithms, fulfilling certain guidelines for the design of search operators, whose benefits have been proven in theory and practice. MBEAs rely upon a suitable definition of a metric on the search space. The definition of a metric for the graph representation will be one of the main issues discussed in this paper. Although this article deals with the problem domain of chemical plant optimization, the algorithmic design can be easily transferred to similar network optimization problems. A useful distance measure for variable dimensionality search spaces is suggested.

Algorithms↗

Neural network for dynamic binding with graph representation: form, linking, and depth-from-occlusion.

A neural network is presented that explicitly represents form attributes and relations between them, thus solving the binding problem without temporal coding. Rather, the network create a graph representation by dynamically allocating nodes to code local form attributes and establishing arcs to link them. With this representation, the network selectively groups and segments in depth objects based on line junction information, producing results consistent with those of several recent visual search experiments. In addition to depth-from-occlusion, the network provides a sufficient framework for local line-labeling processes to recover other three-dimensional (3-D) variables, such as edge/surface contiguity, edge slant, and edge convexity.

Form Perception↗

Using self-recording, evaluation, and graphing to increase completion of homework assignments.

This article describes the use of self-monitoring procedures to increase the number of daily homework assignments completed by eight students with learning disabilities. Students ranged in age from 13 to 16 years and attended Grades 7 through 10. The experimental procedure involved the use of a sheet listing all daily assignments given by regular classroom teachers. A multiple-baseline design across subjects demonstrated a clear relationship between the introduction of self-monitoring of assignments and an increase in assignments completed. Goal setting and self-graphing of data appeared to increase this effect.

Adolescent↗

Prediction of angiographic stabilization/regression of coronary atherosclerosis by a risk factor graph.

BACKGROUND: The only reason for treating dyslipidaemia is the prevention and/or stabilization of atherosclerosis. Angiographic stabilization/reversal of coronary atherosclerosis predicts a decrease in future atherosclerotic disease manifestations. METHODS: This paper reports on an analysis of eight angiographic trials that use therapy of dyslipidaemia in order to stabilize/reverse coronary atherosclerosis. The analysis involved plotting trial lipid and blood pressure end-points on a risk factor graph which contained a threshold line in order to determine whether bringing trial end-points below that threshold line predicted angiographic stabilization/regression of coronary atherosclerosis. RESULTS: In fact, the angiograms for those patients whose lipid-blood pressure plots were brought below the threshold line exhibited stabilization/regression of coronary atherosclerosis in 75% of cases. It is suggested that the goal of dyslipidaemic therapy should be to bring patient lipid-blood pressure plots below the threshold line so as to stabilize/reverse extant coronary atherosclerosis, apparent or inapparent, in the majority of dyslipidaemic patients.

Coronary Angiography↗

DNA microarray data and contextual analysis of correlation graphs.

BACKGROUND: DNA microarrays are used to produce large sets of expression measurements from which specific biological information is sought. Their analysis requires efficient and reliable algorithms for dimensional reduction, classification and annotation. RESULTS: We study networks of co-expressed genes obtained from DNA microarray experiments. The mathematical concept of curvature on graphs is used to group genes or samples into clusters to which relevant gene or sample annotations are automatically assigned. Application to publicly available yeast and human lymphoma data demonstrates the reliability of the method in spite of its simplicity, especially with respect to the small number of parameters involved. CONCLUSIONS: We provide a method for automatically determining relevant gene clusters among the many genes monitored with microarrays. The automatic annotations and the graphical interface improve the readability of the data. A C++ implementation, called Trixy, is available from http://tagc.univ-mrs.fr/bioinformatics/trixy.html.

Algorithms↗

COSIGT: population-scalable genotyping of complex loci from low-coverage sequencing data using pangenome graphs.

Pangenome graphs capture extensive structural diversity, but resolving complex loci from shallow sequencing remains challenging, particularly when samples are of low quality such as in ancient DNA. We introduce COSIGT (COsine SImilarity-based GenoTyper), which assigns diploid genotypes by matching read-depth distributions to haplotype paths via cosine similarity. Because this metric evaluates relative coverage profiles rather than absolute read counts, COSIGT substantially outperforms existing likelihood-based tools at low coverage (1-2X). We demonstrate scalability to thousands of modern and ancient genomes, enabling robust, population-scale analyses of complex variation directly from low-coverage datasets.

Humans↗

Relationship between molecular connectivity and carcinogenic activity: a confirmation with a new software program based on graph theory.

For a database of 826 chemicals tested for carcinogenicity, we fragmented the structural formula of the chemicals into all possible contiguous-atom fragments with size between two and eight (nonhydrogen) atoms. The fragmentation was obtained using a new software program based on graph theory. We used 80% of the chemicals as a training set and 20% as a test set. The two sets were obtained by random sorting. From the training sets, an average (8 computer runs with independently sorted chemicals) of 315 different fragments were significantly (p < 0.125) associated with carcinogenicity or lack thereof. Even using this relatively low level of statistical significance, 23% of the molecules of the test sets lacked significant fragments. For 77% of the molecules of the test sets, we used the presence of significant fragments to predict carcinogenicity. The average level of accuracy of the predictions in the test sets was 67.5%. Chemicals containing only positive fragments were predicted with an accuracy of 78.7%. The level of accuracy was around 60% for chemicals characterized by contradictory fragments or only negative fragments. In a parallel manner, we performed eight paired runs in which carcinogenicity was attributed randomly to the molecules of the training sets. The fragments generated by these pseudo-training sets were devoid of any predictivity in the corresponding test sets. Using an independent software program, we confirmed (for the complex biological endpoint of carcinogenicity) the validity of a structure-activity relationship approach of the type proposed by Klopman and Rosenkranz with their CASE program.

Carcinogens↗

PLNMFG: Pseudo-label guided non-negative matrix factorization model with graph constraint for single-cell multi-omics data clustering.

The development of single-cell multi-omics sequencing technologies has enabled the simultaneous analysis of multi-omics data within the same cell. Accurate clustering of these cells is crucial for downstream analyses of complex biological functions. Despite significant advances in multi-omics integration approaches, current methodologies exhibit two major limitations. First, they inadequately incorporate prior biological knowledge from various omic layers. Second, these methods often conduct independent dimensionality reduction on individual omic datasets, thereby failing to capture the intrinsic complementary information and potentially overlooking crucial cross-platform interactions. Motivated by these, this study investigates a non-negative matrix factorization model called PLNMFG, which integrates the unified latent representation learning that retains the features between and within omics and the cluster structure learning that retains the intrinsic structure of the data into one joint framework. Specially, PLNMFG performs adaptive imputation to handle dropout events and uses prior pseudo-labels as constraints during the process of collective non-negative matrix factorization, as a result, a more robust latent representation that preserves the double similarity information is obtained. Graph Laplacian constraint is applied during clustering which further preserves structure characteristic of multi-omics data. In addition, the weight of each omic is adaptively learned based on the omic contribution. A series of experiments on 8 benchmark datasets show that our model performs well in terms of clustering accuracy and computational efficiency.

Single-Cell Analysis↗

Sparse spectral graph analysis and its application to gastric cancer drug resistance-specific molecular interplays identification.

Uncovering acquired drug resistance mechanisms has garnered considerable attention as drug resistance leads to treatment failure and death in patients with cancer. Although several bioinformatics studies developed various computational methodologies to uncover the drug resistance mechanisms in cancer chemotherapy, most studies were based on individual or differential gene expression analysis. However the single gene-based analysis is not enough, because perturbations in complex molecular networks are involved in anti-cancer drug resistance mechanisms. The main goal of this study is to reveal crucial molecular interplay that plays key roles in mechanism underlying acquired gastric cancer drug resistance. To uncover the mechanism and molecular characteristics of drug resistance, we propose a novel computational strategy that identified the differentially regulated gene networks. Our method measures dissimilarity of networks based on the eigenvalues of the Laplacian matrix. Especially, our strategy determined the networks' eigenstructure based on sparse eigen loadings, thus, the only crucial features to describe the graph structure are involved in the eigenanalysis without noise disturbance. We incorporated the network biology knowledge into eigenanalysis based on the network-constrained regularization. Therefore, we can achieve a biologically reliable interpretation of the differentially regulated gene network identification. Monte Carlo simulations show the outstanding performances of the proposed methodology for differentially regulated gene network identification. We applied our strategy to gastric cancer drug-resistant-specific molecular interplays and related markers. The identified drug resistance markers are verified through the literature. Our results suggest that the suppression and/or induction of COL4A1, PXDN and TGFBI and their molecular interplays enriched in the Extracellular-related pathways may provide crucial clues to enhance the chemosensitivity of gastric cancer. The developed strategy will be a useful tool to identify phenotype-specific molecular characteristics that can provide essential clues to uncover the complex cancer mechanism.

Stomach Neoplasms↗

[Clinical studies on rotation and translation of mandibular head in internal derangements of the temporomandibular joint with dual axis graph].

The present study was aimed at establishing the standards for functional diagnosis of the internally deranged TMJ by analyzing the rotary and gliding movements of the mandibular head. The subjects were patients with anterior displacement of the articular disc (ADD) and normal persons. The rotary movements were examined by use of a simplified condylar movement recorder and a specially developed dual axis graphic system. The findings are as follows: 1. In the patients and the normal persons as well, the rotary movements near the intercuspal contact position (ICP) showed a tendency to increase anteriorly until the mandibular head moved up to 6 mm from the ICP. However, in both patients with ADD with reduction and without reduction, the rotary movements near the ICP were significantly large as compared with those in the normal subjects. 2. In the ordinary persons, the rotary movements near the ICP were mostly larger during the closing movements than during the opening movements. In both patients with ADD with reduction and without reduction, the rotary movements were larger during the opening movement than during the closing movement. 3. The results of our study suggest that the dual axis graph could be a useful tool in examining the rotary movement of the mandibular head.

Humans↗

A simple method for obtaining original data from published graphs and plots.

OBJECTIVE: To describe a method for deriving original data values from scanned images of graphs and scatterplots published in the medical literature. CONCLUSION: The procedure is simple, reproducible, and relatively error free (when performed carefully). This method is useful in converting published graphic material into numeric data for various uses when the original data are unavailable directly from the authors.

Data Interpretation, Statistical↗

Neural network simulation of visual inspection of graphs of single-subject interventions.

Judgments of the effectiveness of single-subject behavioral interventions are often based on visual examination of graphs of response data, but previous research indicates that such judgments are often unreliable and flawed. Here it is proposed that artificial neural networks could be developed to simulate the judgments of expert judges. A prototype of such a network was designed and trained in the present study, and its use in novel experiments matched the estimates of the expert whose judgments were simulated significantly better than did a prediction equation developed using a multiple regression approach.

Artificial Intelligence↗

Graphs: looking at relationships.

Research articles often incorporate data in the form of graphs. This article acts as a study guide to enable readers to understand and interpret the data produced in this way.

Audiovisual Aids↗

[Evaluation of genetic test redundancy using a high-frequency component of the l-gram graph].

Various approaches to the estimation of DNA redundancy are compared: the Shannon entropy, the Lempel-Ziv complexity, and a new method, the computation of the low-frequency component of the l-gram graph. Although these methods are based on different ideas, they satisfy some reasonable requirements. The ability of these methods to find various kinds of repeats in genetic texts is compared. The resolution of the new method for calculation of DNA redundancy is discussed on the example of well-known repeats in the Epstein-Barr virus genome. The intrinsic discrepancy of high-frequency profile and Shannon redundancy profile were observed in some functionally significant regions of sequences being investigated.

Base Sequence↗

[On connection of a graph of a gene network with qualitative modes of function].

Theoretical investigation of properties of assumed gene networks constructed from elementary units of two types, genetic elements and control links, was carried out. A test was formulated for a subclass of such networks with cyclic structure called S(n,k)-networks allowing calculation-free prediction of the network limiting properties (the presence/absence and number of stationery and/or cyclic functioning modes) from a graph of the network structure. The obtained data can be useful for constructing gene networks with predefined properties.

Genetics↗

[An attempt to use graph theory for the description of demographic events].

"The possibility is discussed of using graphs to describe a sequence of demographic events such as births, marriages and deaths. Among all sequences of demographic events those with perturbations are singled out. The following perturbations are defined: childlessness, premature termination of childbearing caused by the death of the female or termination of marriage due to divorce or death of spouse, remarriage of females and pre-marital births." (SUMMARY IN ENG, RUS)

Demography↗

[Graph of sodium channel states].

Four models of sodium channel are considered, only one of its state being conducting. Transitions between any two communicated states are suggested to be governed by the first order kinetics. It is shown that the model describes current responses to single step potentials as well as inactivation -- activation coupling, if its graph has a function between the conducting and inactivation states and the state filled at the hyperpolarization.

Electrophysiology↗