Methods and tools for causal discovery and causal inference

AR Nogueira, A Pugnana, S Ruggieri… - … reviews: data mining …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Causality is a complex concept, which roots its developments across several fields, such as
statistics, economics, epidemiology, computer science, and philosophy. In recent years, the …

A comprehensive survey of regulatory network inference methods using single cell RNA sequencing data

H Nguyen, D Tran, B Tran, B Pehlivan… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Gene regulatory network is a complicated set of interactions between genetic materials,
which dictates how cells develop in living organisms and react to their surrounding …

[HTML][HTML] A blood atlas of COVID-19 defines hallmarks of disease severity and specificity

DJ Ahern, Z Ai, M Ainsworth, C Allan, A Allcock… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Treatment of severe COVID-19 is currently limited by clinical heterogeneity and incomplete
description of specific immune biomarkers. We present here a comprehensive multi-omic …

[HTML][HTML] UVB-induced tumor heterogeneity diminishes immune response in melanoma

Y Wolf, O Bartok, S Patkar, GB Eli, S Cohen, K Litchfield… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Although clonal neo-antigen burden is associated with improved response to immune
therapy, the functional basis for this remains unclear. Here we study this question in a novel …

Gene regulatory network inference from single-cell data using multivariate information measures

TE Chan, MPH Stumpf, AC Babtie - Cell systems, 2017 - cell.com
While single-cell gene expression experiments present new challenges for data processing,
the cell-to-cell variability observed also reveals statistical relationships that can be used by …

Stm: An R package for structural topic models

ME Roberts, BM Stewart, D Tingley - Journal of statistical software, 2019 - jstatsoft.org
This paper demonstrates how to use the R package stm for structural topic modeling. The
structural topic model allows researchers to flexibly estimate a topic model that includes …

Inferring correlation networks from genomic survey data

J Friedman, EJ Alm - 2012 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput sequencing based techniques, such as 16S rRNA gene profiling, have the
potential to elucidate the complex inner workings of natural microbial communities-be they …

Equitability, mutual information, and the maximal information coefficient

JB Kinney, GS Atwal - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
How should one quantify the strength of association between two random variables without
bias for relationships of a specific form? Despite its conceptual simplicity, this notion of …

Bayesian networks with examples in R

M Scutari, JB Denis, T Choi - 2015 - academic.oup.com
Graphical models provide visual representations of the qualitative structure of our beliefs
between collections of random quantities. Bayesian Networks are directed acyclic graphical …

The proteogenomic landscape of curable prostate cancer

A Sinha, V Huang, J Livingstone, J Wang, NS Fox… - Cancer Cell, 2019 - cell.com
DNA sequencing has identified recurrent mutations that drive the aggressiveness of prostate
cancers. Surprisingly, the influence of genomic, epigenomic, and transcriptomic …