Praxis-BGM: Clustering of Omics Data Using Semi-Supervised Transfer Learning for Gaussian Mixture Models via Natural-Gradient Variational Inference
Qiran Jia, Jesse A. Goodrich, David V. Conti
Bioinformatics · Jun 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Topic · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science
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18 papers
Qiran Jia, Jesse A. Goodrich, David V. Conti
Bioinformatics · Jun 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Tung Dang, Yushiro Fuji, Kie Kumaishi, Erika Usui, Shungo Kobori, Takumi Sato, Megumi Narukawa, Yusuke Toda, Kengo Sakurai, Yuji Yamasaki, Hisashi Tsujimoto, Masami Yokota Hirai, Yasunori Ichihashi, Hiroyoshi Iwata
I-SVVS improves clustering accuracy and reduces computation time for multi-omics microbiome data across soybean, mice, and human datasets.
Briefings in Bioinformatics · May 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Kazeem A. Dauda, Olav N. L. Aga, Iain G. Johnston
The paper introduces a clustering-based method to model dynamic accumulation processes in disease progression and antimicrobial resistance evolution using hypercubic hidden Markov models.
IEEE Access · Jan 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Yunshan Duan, Shuai Guo, Hao Yan, Wenyi Wang, Peter Mueller
The paper introduces SARP models to cluster spatially resolved transcriptomics data and identifies co-localized immune and stromal cell subtypes in colorectal cancer.
Bayesian Analysis · Jan 1, 2025Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Yunshan Duan, Shuai Guo, Wenyi Wang, Peter Müller
The paper develops dependent mixture models to compare immune cell subtypes between early-onset and late-onset colorectal cancer, identifying distinct and shared T cell profiles.
Journal of the American Statistical Association · Dec 2, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Gianluca Mastrantonio, Enrico Bibbona, Mattia Furlan
The paper introduces a Bayesian model to infer RNA life-cycle kinetic rates from sequencing data and applies it to study Myc activation in murine fibroblasts, revealing new regulatory patterns.
The Annals of Applied Statistics · Oct 31, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Kath Nicholls, Paul Kirk, Chris Wallace
This paper introduces DPMUnc, a Bayesian clustering method that incorporates data uncertainty, and applies it to GWAS and gene expression data to identify disease subgroups.
PLoS Computational Biology · Sep 3, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Laura Masaracchia, Felipe Fredes, Mark W. Woolrich, Diego Vidaurre
The paper evaluates how different assumptions in hidden Markov models affect state decomposition in electrophysiological data using synthetic and real data.
Journal of Neurophysiology · Jul 5, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience
Tung Dang, Kie Kumaishi, Erika Usui, Shungo Kobori, Takumi Sato, Yusuke Toda, Yuji Yamasaki, Hisashi Tsujimoto, Yasunori Ichihashi, Hiroyoshi Iwata
The paper introduces SVVS, a method for analyzing high-dimensional microbiome data, showing improved performance and faster computation compared to existing methods.
Microbiome · Dec 24, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Stephen D. Coleman, Paul Kirk, Chris Wallace
The paper introduces a consensus clustering method for Bayesian mixture models, showing it can uncover target clustering structures and handle large datasets efficiently.
BMC Bioinformatics · Jul 21, 2022Peer-reviewedSystems Biology
Zachary Ryan McCaw, Hugues Aschard, Hanna Julienne
MGMM fits Gaussian mixture models on incomplete data, outperforming imputation methods in recovering cluster assignments and assessing uncertainty.
BMC Bioinformatics · Jun 1, 2022Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Mengbing Li, Daniel E. Park, Maliha Aziz, Cindy M. Liu, Lance Bradley Price, Zhenke Wu
The paper develops a tree-structured shrinkage method for latent class analysis that integrates sample similarities to improve class probability estimation.
Biometrics · Oct 20, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics
Shai He, Aaron Schein, Vishal Sarsani, Patrick Flaherty
This paper introduces a Bayesian nonparametric model to infer subclonal populations from structured DNA sequencing data, showing improved performance over existing methods.
The Annals of Applied Statistics · Jun 1, 2021Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Zhenke Wu, Livia A Casciola-Rosen, Antony Rosen, Scott L. Zeger
The paper develops a Bayesian method for clustering multivariate binary data with scientific constraints, showing improved interpretability and clustering performance in protein data analysis.
Biometrics · Oct 8, 2020Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Kodai Minoura, Ko Abe, Yuka Maeda, Hiroyoshi Nishikawa, Teppei Shimamura
CYBERTRACK is a statistical framework for clustering and tracking cell populations in time-series flow cytometry data, showing consistent results with known lymphocyte dynamics.
BMC Bioinformatics · Dec 1, 2019Peer-reviewedSystems Biology
Tahmid Mehdi, Gurdeep Singh, Jennifer A. Mitchell, Alan M Moses
The paper introduces a semi-supervised clustering model for identifying active enhancers in mouse heart tissues using heterogeneous genomic data.
Bioinformatics · Feb 6, 2019Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Ko Abe, Masaaki Hirayama, Kinji Ohno, Teppei Shimamura
This paper introduces BERMUDA, a probabilistic model for analyzing microbial composition and disease, showing improved handling of zero-inflated data and providing efficient learning through an annealing EM algorithm.
BMC Bioinformatics · Dec 1, 2018Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Weston J. Jackson, Ipsita Agarwal, Itsik Pe’er
The paper introduces a 2-way k-means model for clustering microbiome samples that can handle mixed compositions between clusters, applied to 16S rDNA sequencing data from the Human Vaginal Microbiome Project.
Journal of Healthcare Engineering · Jan 1, 2017Peer-reviewedBioinformatics