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Ramakanth S, Kennedy T, Yalcinkaya B, Neupane S, Tadic N, Buchler NE, Argüello-Miranda O. Deep learning-driven imaging of cell division and cell growth across an entire eukaryotic life cycle. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.25.591211. [PMID: 38712227 PMCID: PMC11071524 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.25.591211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2024]
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The life cycle of biomedical and agriculturally relevant eukaryotic microorganisms involves complex transitions between proliferative and non-proliferative states such as dormancy, mating, meiosis, and cell division. New drugs, pesticides, and vaccines can be created by targeting specific life cycle stages of parasites and pathogens. However, defining the structure of a microbial life cycle often relies on partial observations that are theoretically assembled in an ideal life cycle path. To create a more quantitative approach to studying complete eukaryotic life cycles, we generated a deep learning-driven imaging framework to track microorganisms across sexually reproducing generations. Our approach combines microfluidic culturing, life cycle stage-specific segmentation of microscopy images using convolutional neural networks, and a novel cell tracking algorithm, FIEST, based on enhancing the overlap of single cell masks in consecutive images through deep learning video frame interpolation. As proof of principle, we used this approach to quantitatively image and compare cell growth and cell cycle regulation across the sexual life cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae . We developed a fluorescent reporter system based on a fluorescently labeled Whi5 protein, the yeast analog of mammalian Rb, and a new High-Cdk1 activity sensor, LiCHI, designed to report during DNA replication, mitosis, meiotic homologous recombination, meiosis I, and meiosis II. We found that cell growth preceded the exit from non-proliferative states such as mitotic G1, pre-meiotic G1, and the G0 spore state during germination. A decrease in the total cell concentration of Whi5 characterized the exit from non-proliferative states, which is consistent with a Whi5 dilution model. The nuclear accumulation of Whi5 was developmentally regulated, being at its highest during meiotic exit and spore formation. The temporal coordination of cell division and growth was not significantly different across three sexually reproducing generations. Our framework could be used to quantitatively characterize other single-cell eukaryotic life cycles that remain incompletely described. An off-the-shelf user interface Yeastvision provides free access to our image processing and single-cell tracking algorithms.
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Pérez-Ortín JE, García-Marcelo MJ, Delgado-Román I, Muñoz-Centeno MC, Chávez S. Influence of cell volume on the gene transcription rate. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. GENE REGULATORY MECHANISMS 2024; 1867:195008. [PMID: 38246270 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2024.195008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2023] [Revised: 01/14/2024] [Accepted: 01/15/2024] [Indexed: 01/23/2024]
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Cells vary in volume throughout their life cycle and in many other circumstances, while their genome remains identical. Hence, the RNA production factory must adapt to changing needs, while maintaining the same production lines. This paradox is resolved by different mechanisms in distinct cells and circumstances. RNA polymerases have evolved to cope with the particular circumstances of each case and the different characteristics of the several RNA molecule types, especially their stabilities. Here we review current knowledge on these issues. We focus on the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where many of the studies have been performed, although we compare and discuss the results obtained in other eukaryotes and propose several ideas and questions to be tested and solved in the future. TAKE AWAY.
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- José E Pérez-Ortín
- Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina (BIOTECMED), Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/ Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain.
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- Instituto de Biotecnología y Biomedicina (BIOTECMED), Facultad de Biológicas, Universitat de València, C/ Dr. Moliner 50, E46100 Burjassot, Spain; Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC-Hospital Universitario V. del Rocío, Seville 41012, Spain; Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC-Hospital Universitario V. del Rocío, Seville 41012, Spain; Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC-Hospital Universitario V. del Rocío, Seville 41012, Spain; Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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- Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla-CSIC-Hospital Universitario V. del Rocío, Seville 41012, Spain; Departamento de Genética, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, Spain
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Fox J, Cummins B, Moseley RC, Gameiro M, Haase SB. A yeast cell cycle pulse generator model shows consistency with multiple oscillatory and checkpoint mutant datasets. Math Biosci 2024; 367:109102. [PMID: 37939998 PMCID: PMC10842220 DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2023.109102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2023] [Revised: 09/13/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023]
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Modeling biological systems holds great promise for speeding up the rate of discovery in systems biology by predicting experimental outcomes and suggesting targeted interventions. However, this process is dogged by an identifiability issue, in which network models and their parameters are not sufficiently constrained by coarse and noisy data to ensure unique solutions. In this work, we evaluated the capability of a simplified yeast cell-cycle network model to reproduce multiple observed transcriptomic behaviors under genomic mutations. We matched time-series data from both cycling and checkpoint arrested cells to model predictions using an asynchronous multi-level Boolean approach. We showed that this single network model, despite its simplicity, is capable of exhibiting dynamical behavior similar to the datasets in most cases, and we demonstrated the drop in severity of the identifiability issue that results from matching multiple datasets.
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- Julian Fox
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
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- Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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Cummins B, Motta FC, Moseley RC, Deckard A, Campione S, Gameiro M, Gedeon T, Mischaikow K, Haase SB. Experimental guidance for discovering genetic networks through hypothesis reduction on time series. PLoS Comput Biol 2022; 18:e1010145. [PMID: 36215333 PMCID: PMC9584434 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2022] [Revised: 10/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Large programs of dynamic gene expression, like cell cyles and circadian rhythms, are controlled by a relatively small "core" network of transcription factors and post-translational modifiers, working in concerted mutual regulation. Recent work suggests that system-independent, quantitative features of the dynamics of gene expression can be used to identify core regulators. We introduce an approach of iterative network hypothesis reduction from time-series data in which increasingly complex features of the dynamic expression of individual, pairs, and entire collections of genes are used to infer functional network models that can produce the observed transcriptional program. The culmination of our work is a computational pipeline, Iterative Network Hypothesis Reduction from Temporal Dynamics (Inherent dynamics pipeline), that provides a priority listing of targets for genetic perturbation to experimentally infer network structure. We demonstrate the capability of this integrated computational pipeline on synthetic and yeast cell-cycle data.
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- Breschine Cummins
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Geometric Data Analytics, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
- Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação, Universidade de São Paulo, São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
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- Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Motta FC, Moseley RC, Cummins B, Deckard A, Haase SB. Conservation of dynamic characteristics of transcriptional regulatory elements in periodic biological processes. BMC Bioinformatics 2022; 23:94. [PMID: 35300586 PMCID: PMC8932128 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-022-04627-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Background Cell and circadian cycles control a large fraction of cell and organismal physiology by regulating large periodic transcriptional programs that encompass anywhere from 15 to 80% of the genome despite performing distinct functions. In each case, these large periodic transcriptional programs are controlled by gene regulatory networks (GRNs), and it has been shown through genetics and chromosome mapping approaches in model systems that at the core of these GRNs are small sets of genes that drive the transcript dynamics of the GRNs. However, it is unlikely that we have identified all of these core genes, even in model organisms. Moreover, large periodic transcriptional programs controlling a variety of processes certainly exist in important non-model organisms where genetic approaches to identifying networks are expensive, time-consuming, or intractable. Ideally, the core network components could be identified using data-driven approaches on the transcriptome dynamics data already available. Results This study shows that a unified set of quantified dynamic features of high-throughput time series gene expression data are more prominent in the core transcriptional regulators of cell and circadian cycles than in their outputs, in multiple organism, even in the presence of external periodic stimuli. Additionally, we observe that the power to discriminate between core and non-core genes is largely insensitive to the particular choice of quantification of these features. Conclusions There are practical applications of the approach presented in this study for network inference, since the result is a ranking of genes that is enriched for core regulatory elements driving a periodic phenotype. In this way, the method provides a prioritization of follow-up genetic experiments. Furthermore, these findings reveal something unexpected—that there are shared dynamic features of the transcript abundance of core components of unrelated GRNs that control disparate periodic phenotypes.
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- Francis C Motta
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Rd, Boca Raton, FL, 33431, USA.
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, P.O. Box 172400, Bozeman, MT, 59717, USA
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- Department of Biology, Duke University, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC, 27708, USA
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Stephan OOH. Interactions, structural aspects, and evolutionary perspectives of the yeast 'START'-regulatory network. FEMS Yeast Res 2021; 22:6461095. [PMID: 34905017 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/foab064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2021] [Accepted: 12/11/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Molecular signal transduction networks which conduct transcription at the G1 to S phase transition of the eukaryotic cell division cycle have been identified in diverse taxa from mammals to baker´s yeast with analogous functional organization. However, regarding some network components, such as the transcriptional regulators STB1 and WHI5, only few orthologs exist which are confined to individual Saccharomycotina species. While Whi5 has been characterized as yeast analog of human Rb protein, in the particular case of Stb1 (Sin three binding protein 1) identification of functional analogs emerges as difficult because to date its exact functionality still remains obscured. By aiming to resolve Stb1´s enigmatic role this Perspectives article especially surveys works covering relations between Cyclin/CDKs, the heteromeric transcription factor complexes SBF (Swi4/Swi6) and MBF (Mbp1/Swi6), as well as additional coregulators (Whi5, Sin3, Rpd3, Nrm1) which are collectively associated with the orderly transcription at 'Start' of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell cycle. In this context, interaction capacities of the Sin3-scaffold protein are widely surveyed because its four PAH domains (Paired Amphiphatic Helix) represent a 'recruitment-code' for gene-specific targeting of repressive histone deacetylase activity (Rpd3) via different transcription factors. Here Stb1 plays a role in Sin3´s action on transcription at the G1/S-boundary. Through bioinformatic analyses a potential Sin3-interaction domain (SID) was detected in Stb1, and beyond that, connections within the G1/S-regulatory network are discussed in structural and evolutionary context thereby providing conceptual perspectives.
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- Octavian O H Stephan
- Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstr. 5, 91058 Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Cyclin/Forkhead-mediated coordination of cyclin waves: an autonomous oscillator rationalizing the quantitative model of Cdk control for budding yeast. NPJ Syst Biol Appl 2021; 7:48. [PMID: 34903735 PMCID: PMC8668886 DOI: 10.1038/s41540-021-00201-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Networks of interacting molecules organize topology, amount, and timing of biological functions. Systems biology concepts required to pin down 'network motifs' or 'design principles' for time-dependent processes have been developed for the cell division cycle, through integration of predictive computer modeling with quantitative experimentation. A dynamic coordination of sequential waves of cyclin-dependent kinases (cyclin/Cdk) with the transcription factors network offers insights to investigate how incompatible processes are kept separate in time during the eukaryotic cell cycle. Here this coordination is discussed for the Forkhead transcription factors in light of missing gaps in the current knowledge of cell cycle control in budding yeast. An emergent design principle is proposed where cyclin waves are synchronized by a cyclin/Cdk-mediated feed-forward regulation through the Forkhead as a transcriptional timer. This design is rationalized by the bidirectional interaction between mitotic cyclins and the Forkhead transcriptional timer, resulting in an autonomous oscillator that may be instrumental for a well-timed progression throughout the cell cycle. The regulation centered around the cyclin/Cdk-Forkhead axis can be pivotal to timely coordinate cell cycle dynamics, thereby to actuate the quantitative model of Cdk control.
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Mofatteh M, Echegaray-Iturra F, Alamban A, Dalla Ricca F, Bakshi A, Aydogan MG. Autonomous clocks that regulate organelle biogenesis, cytoskeletal organization, and intracellular dynamics. eLife 2021; 10:e72104. [PMID: 34586070 PMCID: PMC8480978 DOI: 10.7554/elife.72104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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How do cells perceive time? Do cells use temporal information to regulate the production/degradation of their enzymes, membranes, and organelles? Does controlling biological time influence cytoskeletal organization and cellular architecture in ways that confer evolutionary and physiological advantages? Potential answers to these fundamental questions of cell biology have historically revolved around the discussion of 'master' temporal programs, such as the principal cyclin-dependent kinase/cyclin cell division oscillator and the circadian clock. In this review, we provide an overview of the recent evidence supporting an emerging concept of 'autonomous clocks,' which under normal conditions can be entrained by the cell cycle and/or the circadian clock to run at their pace, but can also run independently to serve their functions if/when these major temporal programs are halted/abrupted. We begin the discussion by introducing recent developments in the study of such clocks and their roles at different scales and complexities. We then use current advances to elucidate the logic and molecular architecture of temporal networks that comprise autonomous clocks, providing important clues as to how these clocks may have evolved to run independently and, sometimes at the cost of redundancy, have strongly coupled to run under the full command of the cell cycle and/or the circadian clock. Next, we review a list of important recent findings that have shed new light onto potential hallmarks of autonomous clocks, suggestive of prospective theoretical and experimental approaches to further accelerate their discovery. Finally, we discuss their roles in health and disease, as well as possible therapeutic opportunities that targeting the autonomous clocks may offer.
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- Mohammad Mofatteh
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San FranciscoSan FranciscoUnited States
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Fan T, Huang Y. Accessible chromatin reveals regulatory mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions during early embryogenesis. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7896. [PMID: 33846424 PMCID: PMC8042068 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-86919-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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This study was conducted to investigate epigenetic landscape across multiple species and identify transcription factors (TFs) and their roles in controlling cell fate decision events during early embryogenesis. We made a comprehensively joint-research of chromatin accessibility of five species during embryogenesis by integration of ATAC-seq and RNA-seq datasets. Regulatory roles of candidate early embryonic TFs were investigated. Widespread accessible chromatin in early embryos overlapped with putative cis-regulatory sequences. Sets of cell-fate-determining TFs were identified. YOX1, a key cell cycle regulator, were found to homologous to clusters of TFs that are involved in neuron and epidermal cell-fate determination. Our research provides an intriguing insight into evolution of cell-fate decision during early embryogenesis among organisms.
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- Tongqiang Fan
- grid.443483.c0000 0000 9152 7385State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, 311300 People’s Republic of China
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- grid.443483.c0000 0000 9152 7385State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture, Zhejiang A&F University, Lin’an, Hangzhou, 311300 People’s Republic of China
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Berry E, Cummins B, Nerem RR, Smith LM, Haase SB, Gedeon T. Using extremal events to characterize noisy time series. J Math Biol 2020; 80:1523-1557. [PMID: 32008103 DOI: 10.1007/s00285-020-01471-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2019] [Revised: 01/13/2020] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Experimental time series provide an informative window into the underlying dynamical system, and the timing of the extrema of a time series (or its derivative) contains information about its structure. However, the time series often contain significant measurement errors. We describe a method for characterizing a time series for any assumed level of measurement error [Formula: see text] by a sequence of intervals, each of which is guaranteed to contain an extremum for any function that [Formula: see text]-approximates the time series. Based on the merge tree of a continuous function, we define a new object called the normalized branch decomposition, which allows us to compute intervals for any level [Formula: see text]. We show that there is a well-defined total order on these intervals for a single time series, and that it is naturally extended to a partial order across a collection of time series comprising a dataset. We use the order of the extracted intervals in two applications. First, the partial order describing a single dataset can be used to pattern match against switching model output (Cummins et al. in SIAM J Appl Dyn Syst 17(2):1589-1616, 2018), which allows the rejection of a network model. Second, the comparison between graph distances of the partial orders of different datasets can be used to quantify similarity between biological replicates.
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- Eric Berry
- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA
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