用概率分类框架统一建模基因调控网络的结构与参数不确定性。
Modeling GRNs with a Probabilistic Categorical Framework
- 结合范畴论与贝叶斯类型佩特里网,构建可解释的动态模型
- 通过生成式推理直接从数据学习网络结构与参数的后验分布
- 适合系统生物学中需要量化不确定性的建模研究者
理解基因调控网络(GRNs)复杂且随机的特性仍是系统生物学的核心挑战。现有建模方法常难以有效捕捉多因素调控逻辑,并严格处理网络结构与动力学参数的双重不确定性。为此,本文提出概率分类基因调控网络(PC-GRN)框架。该框架融合范畴论、贝叶斯类型佩特里网(BTPNs)与新型生成式推断机制。范畴论提供模块化路径的正式语言;BTPNs作为可解释的机制基础,将动力学参数表示为概率分布。核心创新是端到端的生成式贝叶斯推理引擎,可直接从数据学习网络拓扑与参数的联合后验分布(P(G, Θ|D))。这一目标通过GFlowNet采样网络结构与超网络实现参数分布的近似推断协同达成。该框架在数学上严谨,生物可解释性强,并能全面表征不确定性,推动了预测建模与系统分析的发展。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Understanding the complex and stochastic nature of Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) remains a central challenge in systems biology. Existing modeling paradigms often struggle to effectively capture the intricate, multi-factor regulatory logic and to rigorously manage the dual uncertainties of network structure and kinetic parameters. In response, this work introduces the Probabilistic Categorical GRN(PC-GRN) framework. It is a novel theoretical approach founded on the synergistic integration of three core methodologies. Firstly, category theory provides a formal language for the modularity and composition of regulatory pathways. Secondly, Bayesian Typed Petri Nets (BTPNs) serve as an interpretable,mechanistic substrate for modeling stochastic cellular processes, with kinetic parameters themselves represented as probability distributions. The central innovation of PC-GRN is its end-to-end generative Bayesian inference engine, which learns a full posterior distribution over BTPN models (P (G, Θ|D)) directly from data. This is achieved by the novel interplay of a GFlowNet, which learns a policy to sample network topologies, and a HyperNetwork, which performs amortized inference to predict their corresponding parameter distributions. The resulting framework provides a mathematically rigorous, biologically interpretable, and uncertainty-aware representation of GRNs, advancing predictive modeling and systems-level analysis.
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