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The Health Status of a Population: Health State and Survival Curves and HALE Estimates 人口的健康状况:健康状态和生存曲线及HALE估计
Pub Date : 2016-10-17 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-65142-2_10
C. Skiadas, C. Skiadas
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引用次数: 1
A Review of Mathematical Models for Muscular Dystrophy: A Systems Biology Approach 肌肉萎缩症的数学模型综述:系统生物学方法
Pub Date : 2016-10-11 DOI: 10.1371/CURRENTS.MD.6AF74D0CEC0834554DAC78F0045CFDED
A. Cameron, Matthew T Houston, Juan B. Gutiérrez
Muscular dystrophy (MD) describes generalized progressive muscular weakness due to the wasting of muscle fibers. The progression of the disease is affected by known immunological and mechanical factors, and possibly other unknown mechanisms. These dynamics have begun to be elucidated in the last two decades. This article reviews mathematical models of MD that characterize molecular and cellular components implicated in MD progression. A biological background for these processes is also presented. Molecular effectors that contribute to MD include mitochondrial bioenergetics and genetic factors; both drive cellular metabolism, communication and signaling. These molecular events leave cells vulnerable to mechanical stress which can activate an immunological cascade that weakens cells and surrounding tissues. This review article lays the foundation for a systems biology approach to study MD progression.
肌营养不良症(MD)描述由于肌纤维的消耗而引起的全身进行性肌肉无力。疾病的进展受到已知的免疫和机械因素的影响,也可能受到其他未知机制的影响。在过去的二十年里,这些动态已经开始被阐明。本文综述了MD的数学模型,描述了与MD进展有关的分子和细胞成分。本文还介绍了这些过程的生物学背景。导致MD的分子效应包括线粒体生物能量学和遗传因素;两者都驱动细胞代谢、通讯和信号。这些分子事件使细胞容易受到机械应力的影响,从而激活免疫级联反应,削弱细胞和周围组织。这篇综述文章为用系统生物学方法研究MD进展奠定了基础。
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引用次数: 4
Estimating transmission from genetic and epidemiological data: a metric to compare transmission trees 从遗传和流行病学数据估计传播:一种比较传播树的度量
Pub Date : 2016-09-28 DOI: 10.1214/17-STS637
M. Kendall, D. Ayabina, C. Colijn
Reconstructing who infected whom is a central challenge in analysing epidemiological data. Recently, advances in sequencing technology have led to increasing interest in Bayesian approaches to inferring who infected whom using genetic data from pathogens. The logic behind such approaches is that isolates that are nearly genetically identical are more likely to have been recently transmitted than those that are very different. A number of methods have been developed to perform this inference. However, testing their convergence, examining posterior sets of transmission trees and comparing methods' performance are challenged by the fact that the object of inference - the transmission tree - is a complicated discrete structure. We introduce a metric on transmission trees to quantify distances between them. The metric can accommodate trees with unsampled individuals, and highlights differences in the source case and in the number of infections per infector. We illustrate its performance on simple simulated scenarios and on posterior transmission trees from a TB outbreak. We find that the metric reveals where the posterior is sensitive to the priors, and where collections of trees are composed of distinct clusters. We use the metric to define median trees summarising these clusters. Quantitative tools to compare transmission trees to each other will be required for assessing MCMC convergence, exploring posterior trees and benchmarking diverse methods as this field continues to mature.
重建谁感染了谁是分析流行病学数据的核心挑战。最近,测序技术的进步使人们对贝叶斯方法越来越感兴趣,利用病原体的遗传数据推断谁感染了谁。这种方法背后的逻辑是,基因几乎相同的分离株比那些基因差异很大的分离株更有可能是最近传播的。已经开发了许多方法来执行这种推断。然而,测试它们的收敛性,检查传输树的后验集以及比较方法的性能受到了推理对象-传输树-是一个复杂的离散结构这一事实的挑战。我们在传输树上引入一个度量来量化它们之间的距离。该指标可以适应具有未采样个体的树,并突出显示源病例和每个感染者感染数量的差异。我们在简单的模拟场景和结核病爆发的后验传播树上说明了它的性能。我们发现度量揭示了后验对先验敏感的地方,以及树的集合由不同的簇组成的地方。我们使用度量来定义中值树来总结这些集群。随着该领域的不断成熟,评估MCMC收敛性、探索后验树和对各种方法进行基准测试,将需要比较传输树彼此的定量工具。
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引用次数: 14
Fluctuations in protein aggregation: Design of preclinical screening for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease 蛋白质聚集的波动:神经退行性疾病早期诊断的临床前筛查设计
Pub Date : 2016-09-21 DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVAPPLIED.6.034012
G. Costantini, Z. Budrikis, A. Taloni, Alexander K. Buell, S. Zapperi, C. Porta
Autocatalytic fibril nucleation has recently been proposed to be a determining factor for the spread of neurodegenerative diseases, but the same process could also be exploited to amplify minute quantities of protein aggregates in a diagnostic context. Recent advances in microfluidic technology allow analysis of protein aggregation in micron-scale samples potentially enabling such diagnostic approaches, but the theoretical foundations for the analysis and interpretation of such data are so far lacking. Here we study computationally the onset of protein aggregation in small volumes and show that the process is ruled by intrinsic fluctuations whose volume dependent distribution we also estimate theoretically. Based on these results, we develop a strategy to quantify in silico the statistical errors associated with the detection of aggregate containing samples. Our work opens a new perspective on the forecasting of protein aggregation in asymptomatic subjects.
自催化纤维成核最近被认为是神经退行性疾病传播的一个决定性因素,但同样的过程也可以用于在诊断环境中扩增微量的蛋白质聚集体。微流体技术的最新进展允许分析微米级样品中的蛋白质聚集,可能使这种诊断方法成为可能,但迄今为止缺乏分析和解释这些数据的理论基础。在这里,我们通过计算研究了小体积蛋白质聚集的开始,并表明该过程受内在波动的支配,其体积相关分布我们也从理论上估计了。基于这些结果,我们开发了一种策略来量化与含有样本的聚合体检测相关的硅统计误差。我们的工作为预测无症状受试者的蛋白质聚集开辟了新的视角。
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引用次数: 0
Patterns of Selection of Human Movements I: Movement Utility, Metabolic Energy, and Normal Walking Gaits 人类运动选择模式1:运动效用、代谢能量和正常行走步态
Pub Date : 2016-08-11 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29167.02720
S. Hagler
The biomechanics of the human body allow humans a range of possible ways of executing movements to attain specific goals. Nevertheless, humans exhibit significant patterns in how they execute movements. We propose that the observed patterns of human movement arise because subjects select those ways to execute movements that are, in a rigorous sense, optimal. In this project, we show how this proposition can guide the development of computational models of movement selection and thereby account for human movement patterns. We proceed by first developing a movement utility formalism that operationalizes the concept of a best or optimal way of executing a movement using a utility function so that the problem of movement selection becomes the problem of finding the movement that maximizes the utility function. Since the movement utility formalism includes a contribution of the metabolic energy of the movement (maximum utility movements try to minimize metabolic energy), we also develop a metabolic energy formalism that we can use to construct estimators of the metabolic energies of particular movements. We then show how we can construct an estimator for the metabolic energies of normal walking gaits and we use that estimator to construct a movement utility model of the selection of normal walking gaits and show that the relationship between avg. walking speed and avg. step length predicted by this model agrees with observation. We conclude by proposing a physical mechanism that a subject might use to estimate the metabolic energy of a movement in practice.
人体的生物力学允许人类有一系列可能的方式来执行运动以达到特定的目标。然而,人类在如何执行动作方面表现出了重要的模式。我们认为,观察到的人类运动模式之所以出现,是因为受试者选择了严格意义上最优的方式来执行运动。在这个项目中,我们展示了这个命题如何指导运动选择的计算模型的发展,从而解释人类的运动模式。我们首先发展了一种运动效用形式,将使用效用函数执行运动的最佳或最优方式的概念付诸实践,这样,运动选择的问题就变成了寻找使效用函数最大化的运动的问题。由于运动效用形式包括运动的代谢能量的贡献(最大效用运动试图最小化代谢能量),我们也开发了一个代谢能量形式,我们可以使用它来构建特定运动的代谢能量的估计。然后,我们展示了如何构建正常步行步态代谢能量的估计量,并利用该估计量构建了正常步行步态选择的运动实用新型,并表明该模型预测的平均步行速度和平均步长之间的关系与观测值一致。最后,我们提出了一种物理机制,受试者可以用它来估计实际运动中的代谢能量。
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引用次数: 5
Mass Spectrometry Analysis Using MALDIquant 使用MALDIquant进行质谱分析
Pub Date : 2016-07-11 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45809-0_6
Sebastian Gibb, K. Strimmer
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引用次数: 14
Multi-level methods and approximating distribution functions 多级方法和近似分布函数
Pub Date : 2016-04-18 DOI: 10.1063/1.4960118
D. Wilson, R. Baker
Biochemical reaction networks are often modelled using discrete-state, continuous-time Markov chains. System statistics of these Markov chains usually cannot be calculated analytically and therefore estimates must be generated via simulation techniques. There is a well documented class of simulation techniques known as exact stochastic simulation algorithms, an example of which is Gillespie's direct method. These algorithms often come with high computational costs, therefore approximate stochastic simulation algorithms such as the tau-leap method are used. However, in order to minimise the bias in the estimates generated using them, a relatively small value of tau is needed, rendering the computational costs comparable to Gillespie's direct method. The multi-level Monte Carlo method (Anderson and Higham, Multiscale Model. Simul. 10:146-179, 2012) provides a reduction in computational costs whilst minimising or even eliminating the bias in the estimates of system statistics. This is achieved by first crudely approximating required statistics with many sample paths of low accuracy. Then correction terms are added until a required level of accuracy is reached. Recent literature has primarily focussed on implementing the multi-level method efficiently to estimate a single system statistic. However, it is clearly also of interest to be able to approximate entire probability distributions of species counts. We present two novel methods that combine known techniques for distribution reconstruction with the multi-level method. We demonstrate the potential of our methods using a number of examples.
生化反应网络通常使用离散状态、连续时间马尔可夫链来建模。这些马尔可夫链的系统统计量通常不能解析计算,因此必须通过模拟技术产生估计。有一种很好的模拟技术被称为精确随机模拟算法,其中一个例子是Gillespie的直接方法。这些算法通常具有较高的计算成本,因此使用近似随机模拟算法,如tau-leap方法。然而,为了最小化使用它们产生的估计中的偏差,需要一个相对较小的tau值,使得计算成本与Gillespie的直接方法相当。多层蒙特卡罗方法(安德森和海厄姆,多尺度模型)。Simul. 10:146-179, 2012)减少了计算成本,同时最小化甚至消除了系统统计估计中的偏差。这是通过首先用许多低精度的样本路径粗略地逼近所需的统计量来实现的。然后添加校正项,直到达到所需的精度水平。最近的文献主要集中在如何有效地实现多级方法来估计单个系统统计量。然而,能够近似物种计数的整个概率分布显然也是有意义的。我们提出了两种新的方法,将已知的分布重建技术与多层次方法相结合。我们用一些例子来证明我们的方法的潜力。
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引用次数: 9
Evidence for Magnetoreception in Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), Black Drum (Pogonias cromis), and Sea Catfish (Ariopsis felis) 红鼓鱼(Sciaenops ocellatus)、黑鼓鱼(Pogonias cromis)和海鲶(Ariopsis felis)受磁的证据
Pub Date : 2015-11-30 DOI: 10.5296/AST.V4I1.8711
Joshua M. Courtney, M. Courtney
Over the past few decades, magnetoreception has been discovered in several species of teleost and elasmobranch fishes by employing varied experimental methods including conditioning experiments, observations of alignment with external fields, and experiments with magnetic deterrents. Biogenic magnetite has been confirmed to be an important receptor mechanism in some species, but there is ongoing debate regarding whether other mechanisms are at work. This paper presents evidence for magnetoreception in three additional species, red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus), black drum (Pogonias cromis), and sea catfish (Ariopsis felis), by employing experiments to test whether fish respond differently to bait on a magnetic hook than on a control. In red drum, the control hook outcaught the magnetic hook by 32 - 18 for chi-squared = 3.92 and a P-value of 0.048. Black drum showed a significant attraction for the magnetic hook, which prevailed over the control hook by 11 - 3 for chi-squared = 4.57 and a P-value of 0.033. Gafftopsail catfish (Bagre marinus) showed no preference with a 31 - 35 split between magnetic hook and control for chi-squared = 0.242 and a P-value of 0.623. In a sample of 100 sea catfish in an analogous experiment using smaller hooks, the control hook was preferred 62-38 for chi-squared = 5.76 and a P-value of < 0.001. Such a simple method for identifying magnetoreceptive species may quickly expand the number of known magnetoreceptive species and allow for easier access to magnetoreceptive species and thus facilitate testing of magnetoreceptive hypotheses.
在过去的几十年里,通过各种实验方法,包括条件反射实验、外场对准观察和磁阻实验,在几种硬骨鱼和板鳃鱼中发现了磁感受。生物成因的磁铁矿在某些物种中已被证实是一种重要的受体机制,但关于其他机制是否在起作用仍存在争议。本文提出了另外三种鱼类——红鼓鱼(Sciaenops ocellatus)、黑鼓鱼(Pogonias cromis)和海鲶(Ariopsis felis)的磁接受证据,通过实验来测试鱼对磁性钩上的诱饵的反应是否与对照不同。在红色滚筒中,对照钩比磁性钩高出32比18,卡方= 3.92,p值为0.048。黑鼓对磁钩的吸引力显著,相对于对照钩的吸引力为11比3,卡方= 4.57,p值为0.033。磁钩与对照的比值为31 ~ 35,χ 2 = 0.242, p值为0.623。在使用较小鱼钩的100只海鲶鱼样本中,当卡方= 5.76且p值< 0.001时,对照鱼钩被优选为62-38。这样一种简单的方法来识别磁感受物种可能会迅速扩大已知磁感受物种的数量,并允许更容易地获得磁感受物种,从而促进磁感受假设的测试。
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Distribution Approximations for the Chemical Master Equation: Comparison of the Method of Moments and the System Size Expansion 化学主方程的分布近似:矩量法与系统尺寸展开法的比较
Pub Date : 2015-09-30 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-45833-5_2
Alexander Andreychenko, L. Bortolussi, R. Grima, Philipp Thomas, V. Wolf
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On the Principled Description of Human Movements 论人体运动的原则性描述
Pub Date : 2015-09-22 DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13192.62723
S. Hagler
While the use of technology to provide accurate and objective measurements of human movement performance is presently an area of great interest, efforts to quantify the performance of movement are hampered by the lack of a principled model that describes how a subject goes about making a movement. We put forward a principled mathematical formalism that describes human movements using an optimal control model in which the subject controls the jerk of the movement. We construct the formalism by assuming that the movement a subject chooses to make is better than the alternatives. We quantify the relative quality of movements mathematically by specifying a cost functional that assigns a numerical value to every possible movement; the subject makes the movement that minimizes the cost functional. We develop the mathematical structure of movements that minimize a cost functional, and observe that this development parallels the development of analytical mechanics from the Principle of Least Action. We derive a constant of the motion for human movements that plays a role that is analogous to the role that the energy plays in classical mechanics. We apply the formalism to the description of two movements: (1) rapid, targeted movements of a computer mouse, and (2) finger-tapping, and show that the constant of the motion that we have derived provides a useful value with which we can characterize the performance of the movements. In the case of rapid, targeted movements of a computer mouse, we show how the model of human movement that we have developed can be made to agree with Fitts' law, and we show how Fitts' law is related to the constant of the motion that we have derived. We finally show that solutions exist within the model of human movements that exhibit an oscillatory character reminiscent of tremor.
虽然使用技术来提供对人类运动表现的准确和客观的测量目前是一个非常感兴趣的领域,但由于缺乏描述受试者如何进行运动的原则模型,量化运动表现的努力受到阻碍。我们提出了一个原则性的数学形式来描述人类的运动,使用一个最优控制模型,其中主体控制运动的抽搐。我们通过假设一个主体选择的运动比其他选择更好来构建形式主义。我们通过指定为每个可能的移动分配数值的成本函数,以数学方式量化移动的相对质量;主体使成本最小化的运动发挥作用。我们开发了使成本函数最小化的运动的数学结构,并观察到这种发展与从最小作用原理出发的分析力学的发展相平行。我们推导出人体运动的一个常数,它的作用类似于能量在经典力学中的作用。我们将形式主义应用于两种运动的描述:(1)电脑鼠标的快速、有针对性的运动,以及(2)手指敲击,并表明我们推导出的运动常数提供了一个有用的值,我们可以用它来表征运动的表现。在电脑鼠标快速、有针对性的运动的例子中,我们展示了我们开发的人类运动模型是如何与菲茨定律相一致的,我们还展示了菲茨定律是如何与我们推导出的运动常数相联系的。我们最后表明,在人类运动模型中存在解决方案,该模型表现出类似震颤的振荡特征。
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