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• W2174335055 abstract "Probabilistic graphical models offer a common conceptual architecture where biological and mathematical objects can be expressed with a common, intuitive formalism. This enables effective communication between scientists across the mathematical divide by fostering substantive debate in the context of a scientific problem, and ultimately facilitates the joint development of statistical and computational tools for quantitative data analysis. A number of success stories have appeared over the years [1–4]. Today, probabilistic graphical models promise to play a major role in the resolution of many intriguing conundrums in the biological sciences. The goal of this short article is to be a dense, informative introduction to the language of probabilistic graphical models, for beginners, with pointers to successful applications in selected areas of biology. The exposition introduces the essential concepts involved in PGMs in the context of the various stages of a typical collaboration between natural and computational scientists, and discusses the aspects to which each scientist should contribute to carry out the data analysis successfully using PGMs.Let us start by considering a specific problem in transcriptional regulation. Given measurements about the abundance of gene transcripts in retinal cells across stages of development, we would like to discover which functional processes are relevant for development, and reveal which ones are most important at which stage. To develop a PGM to address this problem, we begin by identifying the biological objects that would appear in a cartoon model of how cellular development impacts transcription. In this illustrative example, we have genes and functional processes/contexts. It is reasonable to assume that each gene will participate in multiple functional processes, although typically in a small number of them, and that not all functional processes will be important at all stages of development. We then assess what aspects of the problem we can probe directly, with experimental techniques, and what aspects we cannot. In the example, while an abundance of gene transcripts can be obtained, for instance, via SAGE (serial analysis of gene expression), it is harder to measure functional processes. However, the latter could be operationally defined as sets of genes that share a similar temporal regulation pattern; this definition has the advantage of creating a connection between membership of genes to functional processes (i.e., an unobservable mapping) and similarity of the temporal expression profiles (i.e., observable quantities). The establishment of connections between those biological objects that we can probe and those that we cannot ends a first conceptual effort.A cartoon model of how cellular development impacts transcription is now specified in terms of genes and their abundance, functional processes, and membership of genes to functional processes. Next we translate the biological players and the connections we established among them into mathematical quantities (i.e., random variables) and connections among them (i.e., statistical dependencies). This translation specifies the model structure. At this stage, we rely on biological intuitions to fine-tune the model, for instance, by deciding which sources of variability in the measurements carry information about the latent variables and which do not—if the temporal expression profiles of genes A and B are similar on a relative scale, but their absolute abundance is quite different, should we believe that they both participate in the same functional processes? Last, we assign numerical values to those quantities that are unknown in the final model specifications (i.e., we fit the model to the data) and we use them to develop biological intuitions in the context of the original problem. (Functional aspects of retinal development, in mouse, are fully addressed in [5].)In the following, we briefly introduce the basic mathematical quantities that enable the translation of a cartoon model of biology into a PGM, and we review strategies to assign numerical values to the unknown quantities underlying any PGM that are most likely given the observations. We conclude with an overview of selected applications, complete with pointers to published work." @default.
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• W2174335055 title "Getting started in probabilistic graphical models" @default.
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