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New study compares AI models for plant gene regulation

A new study published on arXiv compares continuous surrogate models with threshold Boolean networks for gene regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. The research evaluated Random Forest (RF) regression and a Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) against a threshold Boolean network (TBN) using gene expression data. While RF and MLP showed strong numerical accuracy in predicting gene expression, the TBN demonstrated superior qualitative accuracy in predicting the binarized gene expression trajectory over time. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Gonzalo A. Ruz ·

    Continuous surrogates versus threshold Boolean networks for modeling Arabidopsis ISR gene regulation

    arXiv:2607.23289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Gene regulatory network modeling often requires balancing predictive accuracy and mechanistic interpretability. In this work, we compare continuous surrogate models and a discrete mechanistic model on the same \textit{Arabidopsis …

  2. arXiv cs.NE (Neural & Evolutionary) TIER_1 English(EN) · Gonzalo A. Ruz ·

    Continuous surrogates versus threshold Boolean networks for modeling Arabidopsis ISR gene regulation

    Gene regulatory network modeling often requires balancing predictive accuracy and mechanistic interpretability. In this work, we compare continuous surrogate models and a discrete mechanistic model on the same \textit{Arabidopsis thaliana} induced systemic resistance (ISR) datase…