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Wysocka EM, Page M, Snowden J, Simpson TI. Comparison of rule- and ordinary differential equation-based dynamic model of DARPP-32 signalling network. PeerJ 2022; 10:e14516. [PMID: 36540795 PMCID: PMC9760030 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.14516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Dynamic modelling has considerably improved our understanding of complex molecular mechanisms. Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are the most detailed and popular approach to modelling the dynamics of molecular systems. However, their application in signalling networks, characterised by multi-state molecular complexes, can be prohibitive. Contemporary modelling methods, such as rule- based (RB) modelling, have addressed these issues. The advantages of RB modelling over ODEs have been presented and discussed in numerous reviews. In this study, we conduct a direct comparison of the time courses of a molecular system founded on the same reaction network but encoded in the two frameworks. To make such a comparison, a set of reactions that underlie an ODE model was manually encoded in the Kappa language, one of the RB implementations. A comparison of the models was performed at the level of model specification and dynamics, acquired through model simulations. In line with previous reports, we confirm that the Kappa model recapitulates the general dynamics of its ODE counterpart with minor differences. These occur when molecules have multiple sites binding the same interactor. Furthermore, activation of these molecules in the RB model is slower than in the ODE one. As reported for other molecular systems, we find that, also for the DARPP-32 reaction network, the RB representation offers a more expressive and flexible syntax that facilitates access to fine details of the model, easing model reuse. In parallel with these analyses, we report a refactored model of the DARPP-32 interaction network that can serve as a canvas for the development of more complex dynamic models to study this important molecular system.
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- Emilia M. Wysocka
- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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- School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Discovering Thematically Coherent Biomedical Documents Using Contextualized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers-Based Clustering. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2022; 19:ijerph19105893. [PMID: 35627429 PMCID: PMC9141535 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19105893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2022] [Revised: 04/26/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The increasing expansion of biomedical documents has increased the number of natural language textual resources related to the current applications. Meanwhile, there has been a great interest in extracting useful information from meaningful coherent groupings of textual content documents in the last decade. However, it is challenging to discover informative representations and define relevant articles from the rapidly growing biomedical literature due to the unsupervised nature of document clustering. Moreover, empirical investigations demonstrated that traditional text clustering methods produce unsatisfactory results in terms of non-contextualized vector space representations because that neglect the semantic relationship between biomedical texts. Recently, pre-trained language models have emerged as successful in a wide range of natural language processing applications. In this paper, we propose the Gaussian Mixture Model-based efficient clustering framework that incorporates substantially pre-trained (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers for Biomedical Text Mining) BioBERT domain-specific language representations to enhance the clustering accuracy. Our proposed framework consists of main three phases. First, classic text pre-processing techniques are used biomedical document data, which crawled from the PubMed repository. Second, representative vectors are extracted from a pre-trained BioBERT language model for biomedical text mining. Third, we employ the Gaussian Mixture Model as a clustering algorithm, which allows us to assign labels for each biomedical document. In order to prove the efficiency of our proposed model, we conducted a comprehensive experimental analysis utilizing several clustering algorithms while combining diverse embedding techniques. Consequently, the experimental results show that the proposed model outperforms the benchmark models by reaching performance measures of Fowlkes mallows score, silhouette coefficient, adjusted rand index, Davies-Bouldin score of 0.7817, 0.3765, 0.4478, 1.6849, respectively. We expect the outcomes of this study will assist domain specialists in comprehending thematically cohesive documents in the healthcare field.
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Danchin A. In vivo, in vitro and in silico: an open space for the development of microbe-based applications of synthetic biology. Microb Biotechnol 2022; 15:42-64. [PMID: 34570957 PMCID: PMC8719824 DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.13937] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Living systems are studied using three complementary approaches: living cells, cell-free systems and computer-mediated modelling. Progresses in understanding, allowing researchers to create novel chassis and industrial processes rest on a cycle that combines in vivo, in vitro and in silico studies. This design-build-test-learn iteration loop cycle between experiments and analyses combines together physiology, genetics, biochemistry and bioinformatics in a way that keeps going forward. Because computer-aided approaches are not directly constrained by the material nature of the entities of interest, we illustrate here how this virtuous cycle allows researchers to explore chemistry which is foreign to that present in extant life, from whole chassis to novel metabolic cycles. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of evolution.
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- Antoine Danchin
- Kodikos LabsInstitut Cochin24 rue du Faubourg Saint‐JacquesParis75014France
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Lee HM, Ren J, Yu MS, Kim H, Kim WY, Shen J, Yoo SM, Eyun SI, Na D. Construction of a tunable promoter library to optimize gene expression in Methylomonas sp. DH-1, a methanotroph, and its application to cadaverine production. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:228. [PMID: 34863247 PMCID: PMC8645107 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-02077-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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BACKGROUND As methane is 84 times more potent than carbon dioxide in exacerbating the greenhouse effect, there is an increasing interest in the utilization of methanotrophic bacteria that can convert harmful methane into various value-added compounds. A recently isolated methanotroph, Methylomonas sp. DH-1, is a promising biofactory platform because of its relatively fast growth. However, the lack of genetic engineering tools hampers its wide use in the bioindustry. RESULTS Through three different approaches, we constructed a tunable promoter library comprising 33 promoters that can be used for the metabolic engineering of Methylomonas sp. DH-1. The library had an expression level of 0.24-410% when compared with the strength of the lac promoter. For practical application of the promoter library, we fine-tuned the expressions of cadA and cadB genes, required for cadaverine synthesis and export, respectively. The strain with PrpmB-cadA and PDnaA-cadB produced the highest cadaverine titre (18.12 ± 1.06 mg/L) in Methylomonas sp. DH-1, which was up to 2.8-fold higher than that obtained from a non-optimized strain. In addition, cell growth and lysine (a precursor of cadaverine) production assays suggested that gene expression optimization through transcription tuning can afford a balance between the growth and precursor supply. CONCLUSIONS The tunable promoter library provides standard and tunable components for gene expression, thereby facilitating the use of methanotrophs, specifically Methylomonas sp. DH-1, as a sustainable cell factory.
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- Hyang-Mi Lee
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Life Science, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Chung-Ang University, 84 Heukseok-ro Dongjak-gu, Seoul, 06974, Republic of Korea.
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Fischer S, Dinh M, Henry V, Robert P, Goelzer A, Fromion V. BiPSim: a flexible and generic stochastic simulator for polymerization processes. Sci Rep 2021; 11:14112. [PMID: 34238958 PMCID: PMC8266833 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-92833-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 06/07/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Detailed whole-cell modeling requires an integration of heterogeneous cell processes having different modeling formalisms, for which whole-cell simulation could remain tractable. Here, we introduce BiPSim, an open-source stochastic simulator of template-based polymerization processes, such as replication, transcription and translation. BiPSim combines an efficient abstract representation of reactions and a constant-time implementation of the Gillespie’s Stochastic Simulation Algorithm (SSA) with respect to reactions, which makes it highly efficient to simulate large-scale polymerization processes stochastically. Moreover, multi-level descriptions of polymerization processes can be handled simultaneously, allowing the user to tune a trade-off between simulation speed and model granularity. We evaluated the performance of BiPSim by simulating genome-wide gene expression in bacteria for multiple levels of granularity. Finally, since no cell-type specific information is hard-coded in the simulator, models can easily be adapted to other organismal species. We expect that BiPSim should open new perspectives for the genome-wide simulation of stochastic phenomena in biology.
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- Stephan Fischer
- INRAE, MaIAGE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRAE, MaIAGE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRAE, MaIAGE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRAE, MaIAGE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France
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- INRAE, MaIAGE, Université Paris-Saclay, Jouy-en-Josas, France.
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