Nicolae Sapoval

GitHub - aliaaz99/GRNITE Contribute to aliaaz99/GRNITE development by creating an account on GitHub.

[4/4] Our approach is by design a meta-method: you can use it with your favorite single-cell RNA-based GRN inference tool, and squeeze more insights out of your data! Check us out GitHub: github.com/aliaaz99/GRN....

#singlecell #GRN #LLM

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[3/4] We use these embeddings to construct a prior graph and then further refine it with some known TF-target interactions as pre-training targets. Finally, we use this augmented prior graph jointly with a GRN inferred by *any* other method, in order to produce a final prediction.

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GenePT: A Simple But Effective Foundation Model for Genes and Cells Built From ChatGPT - PubMed There has been significant recent progress in leveraging large-scale gene expression data to develop foundation models for single-cell biology. Models such as Geneformer and scGPT implicitly learn gene and cellular functions from the gene expression profiles of millions of cells, which requires exte …

[2/4] We use gene descriptions from NCBI Gene database and embed them into a high-dimensional space with a LLM (Qwen3-8B). This idea was inspired by GenePT (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37905130/) and a great study on gene embeddings from @vyao.bsky.social's group (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...).

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GRNITE: Gene Regulatory Network Inference with Text Embeddings Gene regulatory networks (GRNs) capture complex regulatory relationships that govern gene expression in cells. Inference of GRNs from single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data has been an active topic of r...

Check out our new preprint on improving gene regulatory network inference by incorporating a prior from plain-text gene descriptions. It's a simple idea, but we show that it proves to be quite powerful and adaptable. [1/4]

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Nicolae Sapoval @nsapoval.bsky.social presented "Theoretical and empirical performance of pseudo-likelihood- based Bayesian inference of species trees under the multispecies coalescent"
A fantastic theory talk, offering intuitive insights!
Paper: doi.org/10.1101/2025.01.28.635282

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As the next step, we aim to develop rigorous corrections to the pseudo-likelihood-based credibility intervals in order to further improve scalability and applicability of Baeysian phylogenomic inference.

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In our work we explore suitability of pseudo-likelihood for Bayesian phylogenomic inference. We show that using pseudo-likelihood greatly reduces the computational burden of the Bayesian inference. However, the inferred credibility intervals are overconfident.

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A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for estimating species trees under the coalescent model - BMC Ecology and Evolution Background Several phylogenetic approaches have been developed to estimate species trees from collections of gene trees. However, maximum likelihood approaches for estimating species trees under the c...

Likelihood-based phylogenomic inference is common, but it faces scalability issues. Hence, pseudo-likelihood has been previously proposed as a statistically consistent (for topology estimation) and scalable alternative: doi.org/10.1186/1471...

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Theoretical and Empirical Performance of Pseudo-likelihood-based Bayesian Inference of Species Trees under the Multispecies Coalescent Likelihood-based inference under the multispecies coalescent provides accurate estimates of species trees. However, maximum likelihood and Bayesian inference are both computationally very demanding. P...

Our preprint on using pseudo-likelihood for Bayesian inference of species trees from gene tree data under the multispecies coalescent is now online: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Nicolae Sapoval A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

In case if you lose the URL (it’s not pretty), I have linked this on my website (nsapoval.github.io) as well.

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This is aimed primarily at the people who are just starting their thesis-based masters or a PhD. However, it’s also an evolving document, so suggestions and ideas are welcome!

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How I find, organize, and read papers | Notion Introduction

It’s that time of the year when I get some writing done. Here are some notes on how I work with academic literature: plume-lifeboat-00b.notion.site/How-I-find-o...

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Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024

I just completed "Ceres Search" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/4 (A little bit behind the schedule this year, but gotta keep it going)

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Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Adam Phillippy A Ken Kennedy Institute Distinguished Lecture by Dr. Adam Phillippy, Senior Investigator at National Human Genome Research Institute, National Inst...

I was waiting for a great topic for my first Bluesky post, and I cannot thing of a better one: I’m thrilled to be hosting @aphillippy.bsky.social at Rice University today and looking forward to his talk at 4pm! events.rice.edu/event/345896...

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