FALL 2021

MATH - BIOINF 540: Mathematics of Biological Networks

Instructor: Prof. INDIKA Rajapakse

Teaching Assistant: COOPER Stansbury

Class Time: Tuesday and Thursday, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Office Hours:

  • Tuesdays (in-person), from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST in DCMB (Palmer Commons) Rm. 2017A

  • Thursday and Friday (remote), after 2pm EST by appointment via Google Meet: meet.google.com/dnm-zipr-tsb (Links to an external site.) (note that this is a different link)

Syllabus

Course Reading List

Simplicity, Rigor, and Magic

References of Interest


Recommended Reading Material

PROBLEM OF THE DAY

POD1: Class Expectations

POD2: Symmetric Stein Divergence


NOTES, SLIDES, AND PAPERS

Date: 12-09-2021

Papers


Date: 12-07-2021

Supplementary materials that used in today's lecture

Papers

  1. Strogatz SH. "Exploring complex networks." nature. 2001 Mar;410(6825):268-76.

  2. Barabási, Albert-László, and Réka Albert. "Emergence of scaling in random networks." science 286, no. 5439 (1999): 509-512.

  3. Rajapakse, Indika, and Stephen Smale. "Emergence of function from coordinated cells in a tissue." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.7 (2017): 1462-1467.

Date: 12-02-2021


Papers

  1. Gavish, Matan, and David L. Donoho. "The optimal hard threshold for singular values is 4/sqrt(3)." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60.8 (2014): 5040-5053.

  2. Excellent book chapter


Date: 11-30-2021

Papers

  1. Gavish, Matan, and David L. Donoho. "The optimal hard threshold for singular values is 4/sqrt(3)." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60.8 (2014): 5040-5053. (Amazing Paper!)

FUN readings.....

  1. Buchanan, Mark. "The best is yet to come." Nature 447.7140 (2007): 39-39.

  2. More papers: Connections in 2007


Date: 11-23-2021

Please read!

  1. Benson, Austin R., David F. Gleich, and Jure Leskovec. "Higher-order organization of complex networks." Science 353.6295 (2016): 163-166.

URL: https://snap.stanford.edu/higher-order/

  1. D. L. Barabási and A.-L. Barabási,A Genetic Model of the Connectome, Neuron, vol. 105, no. 3, pp. 435-445.e5, Feb. 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.031.


Date: 11-18-2021

  • Network Dynamics: Stability and Bifurcations cont.....

Additional Information:

Papers

  1. Tero, Atsushi, et al. "Rules for biologically inspired adaptive network design." Science 327.5964 (2010): 439-442.

  2. Rajapakse I, Groudine M, Mesbahi M. "What can systems theory of networks offer to biology?" PLoS Comput Biol. 2012 Jun 28;8(6):e1002543.

  3. J. Gao, B. Barzel, and A.-L. Barabási, Universal resilience patterns in complex networks, Nature, vol. 530, no. 7590, pp. 307–312, Feb. 2016, doi: 10.1038/nature16948.


Date: 11-16-2021

Papers

  1. Donnat, Claire, and Susan Holmes. "Tracking network dynamics: A survey using graph distances." The Annals of Applied Statistics 12.2 (2018): 971-1012

  2. Surana A, Chen C, Rajapakse I. "Hypergraph Similarity Measures." arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08206 (2021)


Date: 11-11-2021

TED Talk: I am my connectome

Papers

Date: 11-09-2021

  • Network Robustness: Network robustness is the ability of a network to survive from random failures or deliberate attacks (e.g., removal of nodes or edges). It is intimately related to the underlying network structure/topology.

  • Tensors and Hypergraphs

Papers:

Book:

Network Science: Network Robustness

Date: 11-04-2021


Date: 11-02-2021


Date: 10-28-2021

Papers

Data-guided Control (DGC)

  1. Ronquist S, Patterson G, Muir LA, Lindsly S, Chen H, Brown M, Wicha MS, Bloch A, Brockett R, Rajapakse I. "Algorithm for cellular reprogramming." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017 Nov 7;114(45):11832-7.


Date: 10-26-2021

Papers

  1. Gavish, Matan, and David L. Donoho. "The optimal hard threshold for singular values is 4/sqrt(3)." IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 60.8 (2014): 5040-5053. (Amazing Paper!)

Book

  • Kutz, J. Nathan, et al. Dynamic mode decomposition: data-driven modeling of complex systems. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2016.

Chapter 1: Dynamic Mode Decomposition: An Introduction


Date: 10-21-2021

Papers

  1. Timothy Gardner, Charles Cantor, and James Collins. "Construction of a genetic toggle switch in escherichiacoli." Nature, 403(6767): 339, 2000.

  2. Michael Elowitz and Stanislas Leibler. "A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators." Nature, 403(6767): 335, 2000.

  3. Spencer, Sabrina L., et al. "The proliferation-quiescence decision is controlled by a bifurcation in CDK2 activity at mitotic exit." Cell 155.2 (2013): 369-383.

  4. Rajapakse I, and Smale S. "Mathematics of the Genome." Foundations of Computational Mathematics 17.5 (2017): 1195-1217.

Can We Control the Brain Networks?

  1. Controllability of structural brain networks

  2. Warnings and Caveats in Brain Controllability

Date: 10-14-2021

Papers

Data-guided Control (DGC)

  1. Ronquist S, Patterson G, Muir LA, Lindsly S, Chen H, Brown M, Wicha MS, Bloch A, Brockett R, Rajapakse I. "Algorithm for cellular reprogramming." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017 Nov 7;114(45):11832-7.


Date: 10-12-2021

Papers

  1. Liu, Yang-Yu, Jean-Jacques Slotine, and Albert-László Barabási. "Controllability of complex networks." Nature 473.7346 (2011): 167-173.

  2. Rajapakse I, Groudine M, Mesbahi M. "Dynamics and control of state-dependent networks for probing genomic organization." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2011 Oct 18;108(42):17257-62.

  3. Gurdon, J. B., and D. A. Melton. "Nuclear reprogramming in cells." science 322.5909 (2008): 1811-1815.


Date: 10-07-2021

Extra Notes: Prof. David Bindel's Fall 2019 6210 course notes


Papers

  1. Brin, Sergey, and Lawrence Page. "The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine." (1998).

  2. Bryan, Kurt, and Tanya Leise. "The $25,000,000,000 eigenvector: The linear algebra behind Google." SIAM review 48.3 (2006): 569-581.

  3. Ng AY, Jordan MI, Weiss Y. "On spectral clustering: Analysis and an algorithm." In Advances in neural information processing systems (2002) (pp. 849-856).


Date: 10-05-2021

  • Eckhart-Young: The Closest Rank k Matrix to A

Papers

  1. Ng AY, Jordan MI, Weiss Y. "On spectral clustering: Analysis and an algorithm." In Advances in neural information processing systems (2002) (pp. 849-856).

  2. Chen H, Chen J, Muir LA, Ronquist S, Meixner W, Ljungman M, Ried T, Smale S, Rajapakse I. "Functional Organization of the Human 4D Nucleome. " Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112.26 (2015): 8002-8007.

Please read!

  1. Benson, Austin R., David F. Gleich, and Jure Leskovec. "Higher-order organization of complex networks." Science 353.6295 (2016): 163-166.

URL: https://snap.stanford.edu/higher-order/


Date: 9-30-2021

Slides

Papers

  1. Lieberman-Aiden, Erez, et al. "Comprehensive mapping of long-range interactions reveals folding principles of the human genome." Science 326.5950 (2009): 289-293.

  2. Misteli, T., 2011. The inner life of the genome. Scientific American, 304(2), p.66.


Date: 9-28-2021

Papers

  1. Bapat, R. B. "The Laplacian matrix of a graph." Mathematics Student-India 65, no. 1 (1996): 214-223.

Book (Great book!): Chapter 1

  1. Spielman, Daniel A. "Spectral and Algebraic Graph Theory." (2019)


Date: 9-23-2021

Papers

  1. Rajapakse, Indika, and Stephen Smale. "Emergence of function from coordinated cells in a tissue." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.7 (2017): 1462-1467.

  2. Too much Coupling


Date: 9-21-2021

Papers

  1. Rajapakse, Indika, and Stephen Smale. "Emergence of function from coordinated cells in a tissue." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.7 (2017): 1462-1467.

FUN readings.....

  1. Alon, Uri. "Biological networks: the tinkerer as an engineer." Science 301.5641 (2003): 1866-1867.

  2. Too much Coupling


Date: 9-16-2021

Papers

  1. Watts, Duncan J., and Steven H. Strogatz. "Collective dynamics of ‘small-world’networks." Nature 393.6684 (1998): 440-442.


Date: 9-14-2021

Papers

  1. Strogatz SH. "Exploring complex networks." nature. 2001 Mar;410(6825):268-76.

  2. Barabási, Albert-László, and Réka Albert. "Emergence of scaling in random networks." science 286, no. 5439 (1999): 509-512.


Date: 9-09-2021

Guest Lecture: Dr. Cleve Moler


Date: 9-07-2021

Topics

Slides

Papers

  1. Lieberman-Aiden, Erez, et al. "Comprehensive mapping of long-range interactions reveals folding principles of the human genome." Science 326.5950 (2009): 289-293.

  2. Turk, Matthew, and Alex Pentland. "Eigenfaces for recognition." Journal of cognitive neuroscience 3.1 (1991): 71-86.


Date: 9-02-2021

Topics

  • Networks: (1) Random, (2) Small-world, (3) Scale-free, (4) Ramanujan

  • Review of Adjacency, Degree matrices

  • Laplacian, Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

Slides

Date: 8-31-2021

Topics

  • Introduction to course logistics

  • Nodes and Edges

  • Introduction to Adjacency and Degree matrices