Envisioning gamification in anesthesia, pain management, and critical care: basic principles, integration of artificial intelligence, and simulation strategies

M Cascella, A Cascella, F Monaco… - Journal of Anesthesia …, 2023 - Springer
Unlike traditional video games developed solely for entertainment purposes, game-based
learning employs intentionally crafted approaches that seamlessly merge entertainment and …

[HTML][HTML] Network-based approaches for modeling disease regulation and progression

G Galindez, S Sadegh, J Baumbach… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Molecular interaction networks lay the foundation for studying how biological functions are
controlled by the complex interplay of genes and proteins. Investigating perturbed processes …

Large-scale computational modelling of the M1 and M2 synovial macrophages in rheumatoid arthritis

N Zerrouk, R Alcraft, BA Hall, F Augé… - npj Systems Biology and …, 2024 - nature.com
Macrophages play an essential role in rheumatoid arthritis. Depending on their phenotype
(M1 or M2), they can play a role in the initiation or resolution of inflammation. The M1/M2 …

A large-scale Boolean model of the rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes predicts drug synergies in the arthritic joint

V Singh, A Naldi, S Soliman, A Niarakis - NPJ systems biology and …, 2023 - nature.com
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a complex autoimmune disease with an unknown aetiology.
However, rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes (RA-FLS) play a significant role in …

Applications of Boolean modeling to study the dynamics of a complex disease and therapeutics responses

AA Hemedan, R Schneider… - Frontiers in bioinformatics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Computational modeling has emerged as a critical tool in investigating the complex
molecular processes involved in biological systems and diseases. In this study, we apply …

A Strategy Utilizing Protein–Protein Interaction Hubs for the Treatment of Cancer Diseases

N Carels, D Sgariglia, MGV Junior, CR Lima… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
We describe a strategy for the development of a rational approach of neoplastic disease
therapy based on the demonstration that scale-free networks are susceptible to specific …

A multiscale mechanistic model of human dendritic cells for in-silico investigation of immune responses and novel therapeutics discovery

SS Aghamiri, BL Puniya, R Amin, T Helikar - Frontiers in Immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) with the unique ability
to mediate inflammatory responses of the immune system. Given the critical role of DCs in …

[HTML][HTML] Hybrid computational modeling highlights reverse warburg effect in breast cancer-associated fibroblasts

S Aghakhani, SE Silva-Saffar, S Soliman… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are amongst the key players of the tumor
microenvironment (TME) and are involved in cancer initiation, progression, and resistance to …

Boolformer: Symbolic regression of logic functions with transformers

S d'Ascoli, S Bengio, J Susskind, E Abbé - arxiv preprint arxiv:2309.12207, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this work, we introduce Boolformer, the first Transformer architecture trained to perform
end-to-end symbolic regression of Boolean functions. First, we show that it can predict …

Boolean Networks as Predictive Models of Emergent Biological Behaviors

JC Rozum, C Campbell, E Newby… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Interacting biological systems at all organizational levels display emergent behavior.
Modeling these systems is made challenging by the number and variety of biological …