Schedule

Week Date Major Topic Computational concepts Biological application Slides Reading Lecturer
1 5-Sep Class overview What is Network Biology pptx pdf 1. Molecules of life 2. Topology of molecular networks 3. Current and Future Directions in Network Biology Profs. Roy/Gitter
2 10-Sep Representing and learning networks from data Introductory concepts of graphs and PGMs Representing gene regulatory networks pptx pdf (1) Friedman et al (2) Sparse candidate (3) Markowetz and Spang (optional) Prof. Roy
12-Sep Learning directed PGMs from data Continue from Sep 10th Prof. Roy
3 17-Sep Extensions to directed PGMs Modeling time and prior knowledge pdf pptx DBN and Cancer signaling Prof. Roy
19-Sep Dependency networks Predictive relationships and cycles pdf pptx GENIE3 Prof. Roy
4 24-Sep Continue with dependency networks Prof. Roy
26-Sep Causal graph learning Causal GRNs pdf pptx Review article Prof. Roy
5 1-Oct Deep learning in network biology Graph neural networks Predicting protein interfaces pptx pdf (1)Distill intros (2)Wu et al Prof. Gitter
3-Oct Graph neural networks Predicting protein function pptx pdf Graph attention networks Prof. Gitter
6 8-Oct Graph transformers Predicting chemical properties pptx pdf GraphGPS Prof. Gitter
10-Oct Graph transformers Continued Attention examples (pdf) (ipynb) Prof. Gitter
7 15-Oct Graph transformers Continued Transformer Prof. Gitter
17-Oct Analysis of graphs Degree distribution; clusters/modules Design principles of biological networks pdf pptx (1) Barabasi and Oltvai review (2) Girvan-Newman algorithm (notebook) Spencer Halberg & Erika Lee
8 22-Oct Graph clustering and motifs; evaluation pdf pptx Module detection benchmark Prof. Roy
24-Oct Unsupervised Representation learning Task agnostic graph analysis pdf pptx (1)node2vec (2) OhmNet Prof. Roy
9 29-Oct Continue unsupervised representation learning (RL) see oct24 slides Prof. Roy
31-Oct Graph comparison and alignment Wrap up deep RL for features;MF for alignment Aligning protein-protein interactions (1) RLpdf pptx; (2)Alignment: pdf pptx (1) Variational GraphAutoEncoder; (2) FUSE Prof. Roy
10 5-Nov Alignment continued Aligning single cell omic datasets pdf pptx (1) MNN correct; (2) LIGER Prof. Roy
7-Nov Network-based integration and interpretation Graph kernels for node prioritization Finding important genes of a process/disease pptx pdf GeneWanderer Prof. Gitter
11 12-Nov Graph diffusion Finding patient/disease pathways associated with cancer pptx pdf HotNet Prof. Gitter
14-Nov Graph diffusion Finding patient/disease pathways associated with cancer See 12-Nov Prof. Gitter
12 19-Nov Data integration with few samples Integrating data from small samples pptx pdf PCSF Prof. Gitter
21-Nov Data integration with many samples Integrating data from large samples pptx pdf SNF Prof. Gitter
13 26-Nov Integrating complementary networks Protein function prediction and module learning pptx pdf BIONIC Prof. Gitter
28-Nov Thanksgiving
14 3-Dec Projects
5-Dec Projects
15 10-Dec Projects