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Statistics of correlated percolation in a bacterial community

December 2, 2019

Statistics of correlated percolation in a bacterial community

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12/02/2019

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A computational study on the role of glutamate and NMDA receptors on cortical spreading depression using a multidomain electrodiffusion model

In this paper, Tuttle et al. study the mechanisms by which cortical spreading depression travels as a wave through the brain. They construct a detailed mathematical model based on the physics of ion movement as well as what is known about the molecular players of cortical spreading depression.

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A computational study on the role of glutamate and NMDA receptors on cortical spreading depression using a multidomain electrodiffusion model

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CBNA: A control theory based method for identifying coding and non-coding cancer drivers

To design better diagnostic and therapeutic plans for cancer patients, we need to know the roles of cancer drivers in cancer development as well as their regulatory mechanisms in the human body. In this study, Pham et al. propose a novel framework to identify coding and non-coding cancer drivers (i.e. miRNA cancer drivers). The proposed framework is applied to the breast cancer dataset for identifying drivers of breast cancer.

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CBNA: A control theory based method for identifying coding and non-coding cancer drivers

12/02/2019

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The effect of inhibition on rate code efficiency indicators

Cortical neurons typically receive a signal from many different neurons, which, depending on the synapse type, either depolarize (excitatory input) or hyperpolarize (inhibitory input) the neural membrane. Barta et al. use a neural model with excitatory and inhibitory synaptic conductances to reproduce in-vivo like activity and investigate how the intensity of presynaptic inhibitory activity affects the neuron’s ability to transmit information through rate code.

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The effect of inhibition on rate code efficiency indicators

11/25/2019

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A novel network control model for identifying personalized driver genes in cancer

Guo et al. propose a model to identify the personalized driver genes by employing the structure-based network control principle on genetic data of individuals. They present a paired single sample network construction method to construct the personalized state transition network for capturing the transitions between healthy and disease states.

A novel network control model for identifying personalized driver genes in cancer

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11/25/2019

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Efficient sentinel surveillance strategies for preventing epidemics on networks

In a network of individuals susceptible to infectious disease, what are the best locations to monitor in order to detect the infection quickly? Colman et al. consider various heuristic strategies for sentinel placement that can be implemented in real-world situations without requiring excessive computation, or having perfect data about the network structure.

Efficient sentinel surveillance strategies for preventing epidemics on networks

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11/26/2019

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The role of intracellular interactions in the collective polarization of tissues and its interplay with cellular geometry

In spite of the advances in understanding the different modules of PCP, a comprehensive picture of the intracellular protein-protein interactions necessary for the emergence of long-range tissue polarity is still lacking. Shadkhoo et al. devise a generalized reaction-diffusion model, and investigate the role of cytoplasmic interactions in PCP pathways.

The role of intracellular interactions in the collective polarization of tissues and its interplay with cellular geometry

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12/05/2019

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Prospective Optimization with Limited Resources

Gepshtein et al. studied how humans select actions under such extrinsic and intrinsic uncertainty, in view of the exponentially expanding number of prospects on a branching multivalued visual stimulus.

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