RNA velocity—current challenges and future perspectives

V Bergen, RA Soldatov, PV Kharchenko… - Molecular systems …, 2021 - embopress.org
RNA velocity has enabled the recovery of directed dynamic information from single‐cell
transcriptomics by connecting measurements to the underlying kinetics of gene expression …

Principles of maximum entropy and maximum caliber in statistical physics

S Pressé, K Ghosh, J Lee, KA Dill - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2013 - APS
The variational principles called maximum entropy (MaxEnt) and maximum caliber
(MaxCal)<? format?> are reviewed. MaxEnt originated in the statistical physics of Boltzmann …

Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling

V Bergen, M Lange, S Peidli, FA Wolf, FJ Theis - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
RNA velocity has opened up new ways of studying cellular differentiation in single-cell RNA-
sequencing data. It describes the rate of gene expression change for an individual gene at a …

RNA velocity unraveled

G Gorin, M Fang, T Chari, L Pachter - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We perform a thorough analysis of RNA velocity methods, with a view towards
understanding the suitability of the various assumptions underlying popular …

Ribozyme-based insulator parts buffer synthetic circuits from genetic context

C Lou, B Stanton, YJ Chen, B Munsky, CA Voigt - Nature biotechnology, 2012 - nature.com
Synthetic genetic programs are built from circuits that integrate sensors and implement
temporal control of gene expression,,,. Transcriptional circuits are layered by using …

Identifiability analysis for stochastic differential equation models in systems biology

AP Browning, DJ Warne, K Burrage… - Journal of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mathematical models are routinely calibrated to experimental data, with goals ranging from
building predictive models to quantifying parameters that cannot be measured. Whether or …

Systematic identification of signal-activated stochastic gene regulation

G Neuert, B Munsky, RZ Tan, L Teytelman… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Although much has been done to elucidate the biochemistry of signal transduction and gene
regulatory pathways, it remains difficult to understand or predict quantitative responses. We …

Size-dependent increase in RNA polymerase II initiation rates mediates gene expression scaling with cell size

XM Sun, A Bowman, M Priestman, F Bertaux… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Cell size varies during the cell cycle and in response to external stimuli. This requires the
tight coordination, or" scaling," of mRNA and protein quantities with the cell volume in order …

Studying stochastic systems biology of the cell with single-cell genomics data

G Gorin, JJ Vastola, L Pachter - Cell Systems, 2023 - cell.com
Recent experimental developments in genome-wide RNA quantification hold considerable
promise for systems biology. However, rigorously probing the biology of living cells requires …

Moment-based inference predicts bimodality in transient gene expression

C Zechner, J Ruess, P Krenn, S Pelet… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Recent computational studies indicate that the molecular noise of a cellular process may be
a rich source of information about process dynamics and parameters. However, accessing …