--- _id: '5945' abstract: - lang: eng text: In developing organisms, spatially prescribed cell identities are thought to be determined by the expression levels of multiple genes. Quantitative tests of this idea, however, require a theoretical framework capable of exposing the rules and precision of cell specification over developmental time. We use the gap gene network in the early fly embryo as an example to show how expression levels of the four gap genes can be jointly decoded into an optimal specification of position with 1% accuracy. The decoder correctly predicts, with no free parameters, the dynamics of pair-rule expression patterns at different developmental time points and in various mutant backgrounds. Precise cellular identities are thus available at the earliest stages of development, contrasting the prevailing view of positional information being slowly refined across successive layers of the patterning network. Our results suggest that developmental enhancers closely approximate a mathematically optimal decoding strategy. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Mariela D. full_name: Petkova, Mariela D. last_name: Petkova - first_name: Gasper full_name: Tkacik, Gasper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkacik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 - first_name: William full_name: Bialek, William last_name: Bialek - first_name: Eric F. full_name: Wieschaus, Eric F. last_name: Wieschaus - first_name: Thomas full_name: Gregor, Thomas last_name: Gregor citation: ama: Petkova MD, Tkačik G, Bialek W, Wieschaus EF, Gregor T. Optimal decoding of cellular identities in a genetic network. Cell. 2019;176(4):844-855.e15. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007 apa: Petkova, M. D., Tkačik, G., Bialek, W., Wieschaus, E. F., & Gregor, T. (2019). Optimal decoding of cellular identities in a genetic network. Cell. Cell Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007 chicago: Petkova, Mariela D., Gašper Tkačik, William Bialek, Eric F. Wieschaus, and Thomas Gregor. “Optimal Decoding of Cellular Identities in a Genetic Network.” Cell. Cell Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007. ieee: M. D. Petkova, G. Tkačik, W. Bialek, E. F. Wieschaus, and T. Gregor, “Optimal decoding of cellular identities in a genetic network,” Cell, vol. 176, no. 4. Cell Press, p. 844–855.e15, 2019. ista: Petkova MD, Tkačik G, Bialek W, Wieschaus EF, Gregor T. 2019. Optimal decoding of cellular identities in a genetic network. Cell. 176(4), 844–855.e15. mla: Petkova, Mariela D., et al. “Optimal Decoding of Cellular Identities in a Genetic Network.” Cell, vol. 176, no. 4, Cell Press, 2019, p. 844–855.e15, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007. short: M.D. Petkova, G. Tkačik, W. Bialek, E.F. Wieschaus, T. Gregor, Cell 176 (2019) 844–855.e15. date_created: 2019-02-10T22:59:16Z date_published: 2019-02-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-24T14:42:47Z day: '07' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007 external_id: isi: - '000457969200015' pmid: - '30712870' intvolume: ' 176' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2019.01.007 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 844-855.e15 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 254E9036-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P28844-B27 name: Biophysics of information processing in gene regulation publication: Cell publication_status: published publisher: Cell Press quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Homepage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/cells-find-their-identity-using-a-mathematically-optimal-strategy/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Optimal decoding of cellular identities in a genetic network type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 176 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6049' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'In this article it is shown that large systems with many interacting units endowing multiple phases display self-oscillations in the presence of linear feedback between the control and order parameters, where an Andronov–Hopf bifurcation takes over the phase transition. This is simply illustrated through the mean field Landau theory whose feedback dynamics turn out to be described by the Van der Pol equation and it is then validated for the fully connected Ising model following heat bath dynamics. Despite its simplicity, this theory accounts potentially for a rich range of phenomena: here it is applied to describe in a stylized way (i) excess demand-price cycles due to strong herding in a simple agent-based market model; (ii) congestion waves in queuing networks triggered by user feedback to delays in overloaded conditions; and (iii) metabolic network oscillations resulting from cell growth control in a bistable phenotypic landscape.' article_number: '045002' article_processing_charge: Yes (in subscription journal) author: - first_name: Daniele full_name: De Martino, Daniele id: 3FF5848A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: De Martino orcid: 0000-0002-5214-4706 citation: ama: 'De Martino D. Feedback-induced self-oscillations in large interacting systems subjected to phase transitions. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 2019;52(4). doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aaf2dd' apa: 'De Martino, D. (2019). Feedback-induced self-oscillations in large interacting systems subjected to phase transitions. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. IOP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aaf2dd' chicago: 'De Martino, Daniele. “Feedback-Induced Self-Oscillations in Large Interacting Systems Subjected to Phase Transitions.” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. IOP Publishing, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1088/1751-8121/aaf2dd.' ieee: 'D. De Martino, “Feedback-induced self-oscillations in large interacting systems subjected to phase transitions,” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 52, no. 4. IOP Publishing, 2019.' ista: 'De Martino D. 2019. Feedback-induced self-oscillations in large interacting systems subjected to phase transitions. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 52(4), 045002.' mla: 'De Martino, Daniele. “Feedback-Induced Self-Oscillations in Large Interacting Systems Subjected to Phase Transitions.” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 52, no. 4, 045002, IOP Publishing, 2019, doi:10.1088/1751-8121/aaf2dd.' short: 'D. De Martino, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 52 (2019).' date_created: 2019-02-24T22:59:19Z date_published: 2019-01-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-24T14:49:23Z day: '07' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1088/1751-8121/aaf2dd ec_funded: 1 external_id: isi: - '000455379500001' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 1112304ad363a6d8afaeccece36473cf content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-04-19T12:18:57Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:17Z file_id: '6344' file_name: 2019_IOP_DeMartino.pdf file_size: 1804557 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:17Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 52' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 25681D80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FP7 grant_number: '291734' name: International IST Postdoc Fellowship Programme publication: 'Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical' publication_status: published publisher: IOP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Feedback-induced self-oscillations in large interacting systems subjected to phase transitions tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 52 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6046' abstract: - lang: eng text: Sudden stress often triggers diverse, temporally structured gene expression responses in microbes, but it is largely unknown how variable in time such responses are and if genes respond in the same temporal order in every single cell. Here, we quantified timing variability of individual promoters responding to sublethal antibiotic stress using fluorescent reporters, microfluidics, and time‐lapse microscopy. We identified lower and upper bounds that put definite constraints on timing variability, which varies strongly among promoters and conditions. Timing variability can be interpreted using results from statistical kinetics, which enable us to estimate the number of rate‐limiting molecular steps underlying different responses. We found that just a few critical steps control some responses while others rely on dozens of steps. To probe connections between different stress responses, we then tracked the temporal order and response time correlations of promoter pairs in individual cells. Our results support that, when bacteria are exposed to the antibiotic nitrofurantoin, the ensuing oxidative stress and SOS responses are part of the same causal chain of molecular events. In contrast, under trimethoprim, the acid stress response and the SOS response are part of different chains of events running in parallel. Our approach reveals fundamental constraints on gene expression timing and provides new insights into the molecular events that underlie the timing of stress responses. acknowledged_ssus: - _id: Bio article_number: e8470 article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Karin full_name: Mitosch, Karin id: 39B66846-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Mitosch - first_name: Georg full_name: Rieckh, Georg id: 34DA8BD6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Rieckh - first_name: Mark Tobias full_name: Bollenbach, Mark Tobias id: 3E6DB97A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Bollenbach orcid: 0000-0003-4398-476X citation: ama: Mitosch K, Rieckh G, Bollenbach MT. Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria. Molecular systems biology. 2019;15(2). doi:10.15252/msb.20188470 apa: Mitosch, K., Rieckh, G., & Bollenbach, M. T. (2019). Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria. Molecular Systems Biology. Embo Press. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20188470 chicago: Mitosch, Karin, Georg Rieckh, and Mark Tobias Bollenbach. “Temporal Order and Precision of Complex Stress Responses in Individual Bacteria.” Molecular Systems Biology. Embo Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.15252/msb.20188470. ieee: K. Mitosch, G. Rieckh, and M. T. Bollenbach, “Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria,” Molecular systems biology, vol. 15, no. 2. Embo Press, 2019. ista: Mitosch K, Rieckh G, Bollenbach MT. 2019. Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria. Molecular systems biology. 15(2), e8470. mla: Mitosch, Karin, et al. “Temporal Order and Precision of Complex Stress Responses in Individual Bacteria.” Molecular Systems Biology, vol. 15, no. 2, e8470, Embo Press, 2019, doi:10.15252/msb.20188470. short: K. Mitosch, G. Rieckh, M.T. Bollenbach, Molecular Systems Biology 15 (2019). date_created: 2019-02-24T22:59:18Z date_published: 2019-02-14T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-24T14:49:53Z day: '14' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.15252/msb.20188470 external_id: isi: - '000459628300003' pmid: - '30765425' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '2' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30765425 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version pmid: 1 project: - _id: 25E9AF9E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P27201-B22 name: Revealing the mechanisms underlying drug interactions - _id: 25EB3A80-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: RGP0042/2013 name: Revealing the fundamental limits of cell growth publication: Molecular systems biology publication_status: published publisher: Embo Press quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Temporal order and precision of complex stress responses in individual bacteria type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 15 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6784' abstract: - lang: eng text: Mathematical models have been used successfully at diverse scales of biological organization, ranging from ecology and population dynamics to stochastic reaction events occurring between individual molecules in single cells. Generally, many biological processes unfold across multiple scales, with mutations being the best studied example of how stochasticity at the molecular scale can influence outcomes at the population scale. In many other contexts, however, an analogous link between micro- and macro-scale remains elusive, primarily due to the challenges involved in setting up and analyzing multi-scale models. Here, we employ such a model to investigate how stochasticity propagates from individual biochemical reaction events in the bacterial innate immune system to the ecology of bacteria and bacterial viruses. We show analytically how the dynamics of bacterial populations are shaped by the activities of immunity-conferring enzymes in single cells and how the ecological consequences imply optimal bacterial defense strategies against viruses. Our results suggest that bacterial populations in the presence of viruses can either optimize their initial growth rate or their population size, with the first strategy favoring simple immunity featuring a single restriction modification system and the second strategy favoring complex bacterial innate immunity featuring several simultaneously active restriction modification systems. article_number: e1007168 article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Jakob full_name: Ruess, Jakob id: 4A245D00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ruess orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282 - first_name: Maros full_name: Pleska, Maros id: 4569785E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pleska orcid: 0000-0001-7460-7479 - first_name: Calin C full_name: Guet, Calin C id: 47F8433E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Guet orcid: 0000-0001-6220-2052 - first_name: Gašper full_name: Tkačik, Gašper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkačik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 citation: ama: Ruess J, Pleska M, Guet CC, Tkačik G. Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies. PLoS Computational Biology. 2019;15(7). doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168 apa: Ruess, J., Pleska, M., Guet, C. C., & Tkačik, G. (2019). Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168 chicago: Ruess, Jakob, Maros Pleska, Calin C Guet, and Gašper Tkačik. “Molecular Noise of Innate Immunity Shapes Bacteria-Phage Ecologies.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168. ieee: J. Ruess, M. Pleska, C. C. Guet, and G. Tkačik, “Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 15, no. 7. Public Library of Science, 2019. ista: Ruess J, Pleska M, Guet CC, Tkačik G. 2019. Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies. PLoS Computational Biology. 15(7), e1007168. mla: Ruess, Jakob, et al. “Molecular Noise of Innate Immunity Shapes Bacteria-Phage Ecologies.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 15, no. 7, e1007168, Public Library of Science, 2019, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168. short: J. Ruess, M. Pleska, C.C. Guet, G. Tkačik, PLoS Computational Biology 15 (2019). date_created: 2019-08-11T21:59:19Z date_published: 2019-07-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-29T07:10:06Z day: '02' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: CaGu - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168 external_id: isi: - '000481577700032' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 7ded4721b41c2a0fc66a1c634540416a content_type: application/pdf creator: dernst date_created: 2019-08-12T12:27:26Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:40Z file_id: '6803' file_name: 2019_PlosComputBiology_Ruess.pdf file_size: 2200003 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:40Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '7' language: - iso: eng month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version project: - _id: 251D65D8-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: '24210' name: Effects of Stochasticity on the Function of Restriction-Modi cation Systems at the Single-Cell Level - _id: 251BCBEC-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 grant_number: RGY0079/2011 name: Multi-Level Conflicts in Evolutionary Dynamics of Restriction-Modification Systems publication: PLoS Computational Biology publication_identifier: eissn: - 1553-7358 publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '9786' relation: research_data status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Molecular noise of innate immunity shapes bacteria-phage ecologies tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 15 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '9786' article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Jakob full_name: Ruess, Jakob id: 4A245D00-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Ruess orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282 - first_name: Maros full_name: Pleska, Maros id: 4569785E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Pleska orcid: 0000-0001-7460-7479 - first_name: Calin C full_name: Guet, Calin C id: 47F8433E-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Guet orcid: 0000-0001-6220-2052 - first_name: Gašper full_name: Tkačik, Gašper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkačik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 citation: ama: Ruess J, Pleska M, Guet CC, Tkačik G. Supporting text and results. 2019. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001 apa: Ruess, J., Pleska, M., Guet, C. C., & Tkačik, G. (2019). Supporting text and results. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001 chicago: Ruess, Jakob, Maros Pleska, Calin C Guet, and Gašper Tkačik. “Supporting Text and Results.” Public Library of Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001. ieee: J. Ruess, M. Pleska, C. C. Guet, and G. Tkačik, “Supporting text and results.” Public Library of Science, 2019. ista: Ruess J, Pleska M, Guet CC, Tkačik G. 2019. Supporting text and results, Public Library of Science, 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001. mla: Ruess, Jakob, et al. Supporting Text and Results. Public Library of Science, 2019, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001. short: J. Ruess, M. Pleska, C.C. Guet, G. Tkačik, (2019). date_created: 2021-08-06T08:23:43Z date_published: 2019-07-02T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-08-29T07:10:05Z day: '02' department: - _id: CaGu - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007168.s001 month: '07' oa_version: Published Version publisher: Public Library of Science related_material: record: - id: '6784' relation: used_in_publication status: public status: public title: Supporting text and results type: research_data_reference user_id: 6785fbc1-c503-11eb-8a32-93094b40e1cf year: '2019' ... --- _id: '7422' abstract: - lang: eng text: Biochemical reactions often occur at low copy numbers but at once in crowded and diverse environments. Space and stochasticity therefore play an essential role in biochemical networks. Spatial-stochastic simulations have become a prominent tool for understanding how stochasticity at the microscopic level influences the macroscopic behavior of such systems. While particle-based models guarantee the level of detail necessary to accurately describe the microscopic dynamics at very low copy numbers, the algorithms used to simulate them typically imply trade-offs between computational efficiency and biochemical accuracy. eGFRD (enhanced Green’s Function Reaction Dynamics) is an exact algorithm that evades such trade-offs by partitioning the N-particle system into M ≤ N analytically tractable one- and two-particle systems; the analytical solutions (Green’s functions) then are used to implement an event-driven particle-based scheme that allows particles to make large jumps in time and space while retaining access to their state variables at arbitrary simulation times. Here we present “eGFRD2,” a new eGFRD version that implements the principle of eGFRD in all dimensions, thus enabling efficient particle-based simulation of biochemical reaction-diffusion processes in the 3D cytoplasm, on 2D planes representing membranes, and on 1D elongated cylinders representative of, e.g., cytoskeletal tracks or DNA; in 1D, it also incorporates convective motion used to model active transport. We find that, for low particle densities, eGFRD2 is up to 6 orders of magnitude faster than conventional Brownian dynamics. We exemplify the capabilities of eGFRD2 by simulating an idealized model of Pom1 gradient formation, which involves 3D diffusion, active transport on microtubules, and autophosphorylation on the membrane, confirming recent experimental and theoretical results on this system to hold under genuinely stochastic conditions. article_number: '054108' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Thomas R full_name: Sokolowski, Thomas R id: 3E999752-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Sokolowski orcid: 0000-0002-1287-3779 - first_name: Joris full_name: Paijmans, Joris last_name: Paijmans - first_name: Laurens full_name: Bossen, Laurens last_name: Bossen - first_name: Thomas full_name: Miedema, Thomas last_name: Miedema - first_name: Martijn full_name: Wehrens, Martijn last_name: Wehrens - first_name: Nils B. full_name: Becker, Nils B. last_name: Becker - first_name: Kazunari full_name: Kaizu, Kazunari last_name: Kaizu - first_name: Koichi full_name: Takahashi, Koichi last_name: Takahashi - first_name: Marileen full_name: Dogterom, Marileen last_name: Dogterom - first_name: Pieter Rein full_name: ten Wolde, Pieter Rein last_name: ten Wolde citation: ama: Sokolowski TR, Paijmans J, Bossen L, et al. eGFRD in all dimensions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 2019;150(5). doi:10.1063/1.5064867 apa: Sokolowski, T. R., Paijmans, J., Bossen, L., Miedema, T., Wehrens, M., Becker, N. B., … ten Wolde, P. R. (2019). eGFRD in all dimensions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5064867 chicago: Sokolowski, Thomas R, Joris Paijmans, Laurens Bossen, Thomas Miedema, Martijn Wehrens, Nils B. Becker, Kazunari Kaizu, Koichi Takahashi, Marileen Dogterom, and Pieter Rein ten Wolde. “EGFRD in All Dimensions.” The Journal of Chemical Physics. AIP Publishing, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5064867. ieee: T. R. Sokolowski et al., “eGFRD in all dimensions,” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 150, no. 5. AIP Publishing, 2019. ista: Sokolowski TR, Paijmans J, Bossen L, Miedema T, Wehrens M, Becker NB, Kaizu K, Takahashi K, Dogterom M, ten Wolde PR. 2019. eGFRD in all dimensions. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 150(5), 054108. mla: Sokolowski, Thomas R., et al. “EGFRD in All Dimensions.” The Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 150, no. 5, 054108, AIP Publishing, 2019, doi:10.1063/1.5064867. short: T.R. Sokolowski, J. Paijmans, L. Bossen, T. Miedema, M. Wehrens, N.B. Becker, K. Kaizu, K. Takahashi, M. Dogterom, P.R. ten Wolde, The Journal of Chemical Physics 150 (2019). date_created: 2020-01-30T10:34:36Z date_published: 2019-02-07T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-06T14:59:28Z day: '07' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1063/1.5064867 external_id: arxiv: - '1708.09364' isi: - '000458109300009' intvolume: ' 150' isi: 1 issue: '5' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.09364 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Preprint publication: The Journal of Chemical Physics publication_identifier: eissn: - 1089-7690 issn: - 0021-9606 publication_status: published publisher: AIP Publishing quality_controlled: '1' status: public title: eGFRD in all dimensions type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 150 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6900' abstract: - lang: eng text: Across diverse biological systems—ranging from neural networks to intracellular signaling and genetic regulatory networks—the information about changes in the environment is frequently encoded in the full temporal dynamics of the network nodes. A pressing data-analysis challenge has thus been to efficiently estimate the amount of information that these dynamics convey from experimental data. Here we develop and evaluate decoding-based estimation methods to lower bound the mutual information about a finite set of inputs, encoded in single-cell high-dimensional time series data. For biological reaction networks governed by the chemical Master equation, we derive model-based information approximations and analytical upper bounds, against which we benchmark our proposed model-free decoding estimators. In contrast to the frequently-used k-nearest-neighbor estimator, decoding-based estimators robustly extract a large fraction of the available information from high-dimensional trajectories with a realistic number of data samples. We apply these estimators to previously published data on Erk and Ca2+ signaling in mammalian cells and to yeast stress-response, and find that substantial amount of information about environmental state can be encoded by non-trivial response statistics even in stationary signals. We argue that these single-cell, decoding-based information estimates, rather than the commonly-used tests for significant differences between selected population response statistics, provide a proper and unbiased measure for the performance of biological signaling networks. article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Sarah A full_name: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A id: 3DEE19A4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cepeda Humerez - first_name: Jakob full_name: Ruess, Jakob last_name: Ruess orcid: 0000-0003-1615-3282 - first_name: Gašper full_name: Tkačik, Gašper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkačik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 citation: ama: Cepeda Humerez SA, Ruess J, Tkačik G. Estimating information in time-varying signals. PLoS computational biology. 2019;15(9):e1007290. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007290 apa: Cepeda Humerez, S. A., Ruess, J., & Tkačik, G. (2019). Estimating information in time-varying signals. PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007290 chicago: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A, Jakob Ruess, and Gašper Tkačik. “Estimating Information in Time-Varying Signals.” PLoS Computational Biology. Public Library of Science, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007290. ieee: S. A. Cepeda Humerez, J. Ruess, and G. Tkačik, “Estimating information in time-varying signals,” PLoS computational biology, vol. 15, no. 9. Public Library of Science, p. e1007290, 2019. ista: Cepeda Humerez SA, Ruess J, Tkačik G. 2019. Estimating information in time-varying signals. PLoS computational biology. 15(9), e1007290. mla: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A., et al. “Estimating Information in Time-Varying Signals.” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 15, no. 9, Public Library of Science, 2019, p. e1007290, doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007290. short: S.A. Cepeda Humerez, J. Ruess, G. Tkačik, PLoS Computational Biology 15 (2019) e1007290. date_created: 2019-09-22T22:00:37Z date_published: 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-07T12:55:21Z day: '03' ddc: - '570' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007290 external_id: isi: - '000489741800021' pmid: - '31479447' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 81bdce1361c9aa8395d6fa635fb6ab47 content_type: application/pdf creator: kschuh date_created: 2019-10-01T10:53:45Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:44Z file_id: '6925' file_name: 2019_PLoS_Cepeda-Humerez.pdf file_size: 3081855 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:44Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '9' language: - iso: eng month: '09' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: e1007290 pmid: 1 project: - _id: 254E9036-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425 call_identifier: FWF grant_number: P28844-B27 name: Biophysics of information processing in gene regulation publication: PLoS computational biology publication_identifier: eissn: - '15537358' publication_status: published publisher: Public Library of Science quality_controlled: '1' related_material: record: - id: '6473' relation: part_of_dissertation status: public scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Estimating information in time-varying signals tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: 4359f0d1-fa6c-11eb-b949-802e58b17ae8 volume: 15 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '196' abstract: - lang: eng text: 'The abelian sandpile serves as a model to study self-organized criticality, a phenomenon occurring in biological, physical and social processes. The identity of the abelian group is a fractal composed of self-similar patches, and its limit is subject of extensive collaborative research. Here, we analyze the evolution of the sandpile identity under harmonic fields of different orders. We show that this evolution corresponds to periodic cycles through the abelian group characterized by the smooth transformation and apparent conservation of the patches constituting the identity. The dynamics induced by second and third order harmonics resemble smooth stretchings, respectively translations, of the identity, while the ones induced by fourth order harmonics resemble magnifications and rotations. Starting with order three, the dynamics pass through extended regions of seemingly random configurations which spontaneously reassemble into accentuated patterns. We show that the space of harmonic functions projects to the extended analogue of the sandpile group, thus providing a set of universal coordinates identifying configurations between different domains. Since the original sandpile group is a subgroup of the extended one, this directly implies that it admits a natural renormalization. Furthermore, we show that the harmonic fields can be induced by simple Markov processes, and that the corresponding stochastic dynamics show remarkable robustness over hundreds of periods. Finally, we encode information into seemingly random configurations, and decode this information with an algorithm requiring minimal prior knowledge. Our results suggest that harmonic fields might split the sandpile group into sub-sets showing different critical coefficients, and that it might be possible to extend the fractal structure of the identity beyond the boundaries of its domain. ' acknowledgement: "M.L. is grateful to the members of the C Guet and G Tkacik groups for valuable comments and support. M.S. is grateful to Nikita Kalinin for inspiring communications.\r\n" article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Moritz full_name: Lang, Moritz id: 29E0800A-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Lang - first_name: Mikhail full_name: Shkolnikov, Mikhail id: 35084A62-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Shkolnikov orcid: 0000-0002-4310-178X citation: ama: Lang M, Shkolnikov M. Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019;116(8):2821-2830. doi:10.1073/pnas.1812015116 apa: Lang, M., & Shkolnikov, M. (2019). Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812015116 chicago: Lang, Moritz, and Mikhail Shkolnikov. “Harmonic Dynamics of the Abelian Sandpile.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. National Academy of Sciences, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812015116. ieee: M. Lang and M. Shkolnikov, “Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 8. National Academy of Sciences, pp. 2821–2830, 2019. ista: Lang M, Shkolnikov M. 2019. Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(8), 2821–2830. mla: Lang, Moritz, and Mikhail Shkolnikov. “Harmonic Dynamics of the Abelian Sandpile.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 8, National Academy of Sciences, 2019, pp. 2821–30, doi:10.1073/pnas.1812015116. short: M. Lang, M. Shkolnikov, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (2019) 2821–2830. date_created: 2018-12-11T11:45:08Z date_published: 2019-02-19T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-11T14:09:34Z day: '19' department: - _id: CaGu - _id: GaTk - _id: TaHa doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812015116 external_id: arxiv: - '1806.10823' isi: - '000459074400013' pmid: - ' 30728300' intvolume: ' 116' isi: 1 issue: '8' language: - iso: eng main_file_link: - open_access: '1' url: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1812015116 month: '02' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: 2821-2830 pmid: 1 publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences publication_identifier: eissn: - 1091-6490 publication_status: published publisher: National Academy of Sciences quality_controlled: '1' related_material: link: - description: News on IST Webpage relation: press_release url: https://ist.ac.at/en/news/famous-sandpile-model-shown-to-move-like-a-traveling-sand-dune/ scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Harmonic dynamics of the Abelian sandpile type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 116 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '5817' abstract: - lang: eng text: We theoretically study the shapes of lipid vesicles confined to a spherical cavity, elaborating a framework based on the so-called limiting shapes constructed from geometrically simple structural elements such as double-membrane walls and edges. Partly inspired by numerical results, the proposed non-compartmentalized and compartmentalized limiting shapes are arranged in the bilayer-couple phase diagram which is then compared to its free-vesicle counterpart. We also compute the area-difference-elasticity phase diagram of the limiting shapes and we use it to interpret shape transitions experimentally observed in vesicles confined within another vesicle. The limiting-shape framework may be generalized to theoretically investigate the structure of certain cell organelles such as the mitochondrion. article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Bor full_name: Kavcic, Bor id: 350F91D2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Kavcic orcid: 0000-0001-6041-254X - first_name: A. full_name: Sakashita, A. last_name: Sakashita - first_name: H. full_name: Noguchi, H. last_name: Noguchi - first_name: P. full_name: Ziherl, P. last_name: Ziherl citation: ama: Kavcic B, Sakashita A, Noguchi H, Ziherl P. Limiting shapes of confined lipid vesicles. Soft Matter. 2019;15(4):602-614. doi:10.1039/c8sm01956h apa: Kavcic, B., Sakashita, A., Noguchi, H., & Ziherl, P. (2019). Limiting shapes of confined lipid vesicles. Soft Matter. Royal Society of Chemistry. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm01956h chicago: Kavcic, Bor, A. Sakashita, H. Noguchi, and P. Ziherl. “Limiting Shapes of Confined Lipid Vesicles.” Soft Matter. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1039/c8sm01956h. ieee: B. Kavcic, A. Sakashita, H. Noguchi, and P. Ziherl, “Limiting shapes of confined lipid vesicles,” Soft Matter, vol. 15, no. 4. Royal Society of Chemistry, pp. 602–614, 2019. ista: Kavcic B, Sakashita A, Noguchi H, Ziherl P. 2019. Limiting shapes of confined lipid vesicles. Soft Matter. 15(4), 602–614. mla: Kavcic, Bor, et al. “Limiting Shapes of Confined Lipid Vesicles.” Soft Matter, vol. 15, no. 4, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019, pp. 602–14, doi:10.1039/c8sm01956h. short: B. Kavcic, A. Sakashita, H. Noguchi, P. Ziherl, Soft Matter 15 (2019) 602–614. date_created: 2019-01-11T07:37:47Z date_published: 2019-01-10T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-13T08:47:16Z day: '10' ddc: - '530' department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.1039/c8sm01956h external_id: isi: - '000457329700003' pmid: - '30629082' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 614c337d6424ccd3d48d1b1f9513510d content_type: application/pdf creator: bkavcic date_created: 2020-10-09T11:00:05Z date_updated: 2020-10-09T11:00:05Z file_id: '8641' file_name: lmt_sftmtr_V8.pdf file_size: 5370762 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2020-10-09T11:00:05Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 15' isi: 1 issue: '4' language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ month: '01' oa: 1 oa_version: Submitted Version page: 602-614 pmid: 1 publication: Soft Matter publication_identifier: eissn: - 1744-6848 issn: - 1744-683X publication_status: published publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Limiting shapes of confined lipid vesicles tmp: image: /images/cc_by_nc_nd.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) short: CC BY-NC-ND (3.0) type: journal_article user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 volume: 15 year: '2019' ... --- _id: '6473' abstract: - lang: eng text: "Single cells are constantly interacting with their environment and each other, more importantly, the accurate perception of environmental cues is crucial for growth, survival, and reproduction. This communication between cells and their environment can be formalized in mathematical terms and be quantified as the information flow between them, as prescribed by information theory. \r\nThe recent availability of real–time dynamical patterns of signaling molecules in single cells has allowed us to identify encoding about the identity of the environment in the time–series. However, efficient estimation of the information transmitted by these signals has been a data–analysis challenge due to the high dimensionality of the trajectories and the limited number of samples. In the first part of this thesis, we develop and evaluate decoding–based estimation methods to lower bound the mutual information and derive model–based precise information estimates for biological reaction networks governed by the chemical master equation. This is followed by applying the decoding-based methods to study the intracellular representation of extracellular changes in budding yeast, by observing the transient dynamics of nuclear translocation of 10 transcription factors in response to 3 stress conditions. Additionally, we apply these estimators to previously published data on ERK and Ca2+ signaling and yeast stress response. We argue that this single cell decoding-based measure of information provides an unbiased, quantitative and interpretable measure for the fidelity of biological signaling processes. \r\nFinally, in the last section, we deal with gene regulation which is primarily controlled by transcription factors (TFs) that bind to the DNA to activate gene expression. The possibility that non-cognate TFs activate transcription diminishes the accuracy of regulation with potentially disastrous effects for the cell. This ’crosstalk’ acts as a previously unexplored source of noise in biochemical networks and puts a strong constraint on their performance. To mitigate erroneous initiation we propose an out of equilibrium scheme that implements kinetic proofreading. We show that such architectures are favored over their equilibrium counterparts for complex organisms despite introducing noise in gene expression. " alternative_title: - ISTA Thesis article_processing_charge: No author: - first_name: Sarah A full_name: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A id: 3DEE19A4-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Cepeda Humerez citation: ama: Cepeda Humerez SA. Estimating information flow in single cells. 2019. doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6473 apa: Cepeda Humerez, S. A. (2019). Estimating information flow in single cells. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6473 chicago: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A. “Estimating Information Flow in Single Cells.” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2019. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:6473. ieee: S. A. Cepeda Humerez, “Estimating information flow in single cells,” Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2019. ista: Cepeda Humerez SA. 2019. Estimating information flow in single cells. Institute of Science and Technology Austria. mla: Cepeda Humerez, Sarah A. Estimating Information Flow in Single Cells. Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2019, doi:10.15479/AT:ISTA:6473. short: S.A. Cepeda Humerez, Estimating Information Flow in Single Cells, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, 2019. date_created: 2019-05-21T00:11:23Z date_published: 2019-05-23T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-09-19T15:13:26Z day: '23' ddc: - '004' degree_awarded: PhD department: - _id: GaTk doi: 10.15479/AT:ISTA:6473 file: - access_level: closed checksum: 75f9184c1346e10a5de5f9cc7338309a content_type: application/zip creator: scepeda date_created: 2019-05-23T11:18:16Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:31Z file_id: '6480' file_name: Thesis_Cepeda.zip file_size: 23937464 relation: source_file - access_level: open_access checksum: afdc0633ddbd71d5b13550d7fb4f4454 content_type: application/pdf creator: scepeda date_created: 2019-05-23T11:18:13Z date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:31Z file_id: '6481' file_name: CepedaThesis.pdf file_size: 16646985 relation: main_file file_date_updated: 2020-07-14T12:47:31Z has_accepted_license: '1' keyword: - Information estimation - Time-series - data analysis language: - iso: eng month: '05' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version page: '135' publication_identifier: issn: - 2663-337X publication_status: published publisher: Institute of Science and Technology Austria related_material: record: - id: '1576' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '6900' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '281' relation: dissertation_contains status: public - id: '2016' relation: dissertation_contains status: public status: public supervisor: - first_name: Gašper full_name: Tkačik, Gašper id: 3D494DCA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87 last_name: Tkačik orcid: 0000-0002-6699-1455 title: Estimating information flow in single cells tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: dissertation user_id: c635000d-4b10-11ee-a964-aac5a93f6ac1 year: '2019' ...