Paper List
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Formation of Artificial Neural Assemblies by Biologically Plausible Inhibition Mechanisms
This work addresses the core limitation of the Assembly Calculus model—its fixed-size, biologically implausible k-WTA selection process—by introducing...
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How to make the most of your masked language model for protein engineering
This paper addresses the critical bottleneck of efficiently sampling high-quality, diverse protein sequences from Masked Language Models (MLMs) for pr...
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Module control in youth symptom networks across COVID-19
This paper addresses the core challenge of distinguishing whether a prolonged societal stressor (COVID-19) fundamentally reorganizes the architecture ...
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JEDI: Jointly Embedded Inference of Neural Dynamics
This paper addresses the core challenge of inferring context-dependent neural dynamics from noisy, high-dimensional recordings using a single unified ...
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ATP Level and Phosphorylation Free Energy Regulate Trigger-Wave Speed and Critical Nucleus Size in Cellular Biochemical Systems
This work addresses the core challenge of quantitatively predicting how the cellular energy state (ATP level and phosphorylation free energy) governs ...
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Packaging Jupyter notebooks as installable desktop apps using LabConstrictor
This paper addresses the core pain point of ensuring Jupyter notebook reproducibility and accessibility across different computing environments, parti...
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SNPgen: Phenotype-Supervised Genotype Representation and Synthetic Data Generation via Latent Diffusion
This paper addresses the core challenge of generating privacy-preserving synthetic genotype data that maintains both statistical fidelity and downstre...
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Continuous Diffusion Transformers for Designing Synthetic Regulatory Elements
This paper addresses the challenge of efficiently generating novel, cell-type-specific regulatory DNA sequences with high predicted activity while min...
可变食性范围模型中向泛化主义的缓慢演化
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
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IN SHORT: 通过证明是种群统计噪声（而非确定性动力学）驱动了模式形成和泛化食性的演化，解决了间接竞争下物种形成的悖论。
核心创新
- Methodology Develops a continuous-space resource-consumer model with explicit resource dynamics and evolvable dietary range, extending beyond fixed-preference Lotka-Volterra frameworks.
- Theory Demonstrates that deterministic analysis predicts homogeneous steady states (no species), but stochastic simulations with demographic noise induce persistent pattern formation interpreted as species.
- Methodology Uses Fourier analysis of linearized dynamics to predict the dominant perturbation modes (e.g., number of species) from the power spectrum, linking analytical predictions to simulation outcomes.
主要结论
- 对于固定食性范围（w=0.2），傅里叶分析预测在 kL/2π=5 处存在主导模式，这对应于在随机模拟中观察到的5个等间距物种的形成（图2，3A）。
- 在可演化食性范围模型中，动力学发生在两个时间尺度上：快速协同演化到准稳态流形，随后缓慢弛豫向均匀态。种群统计噪声阻止了这种弛豫，维持了模式。
- 泛化食性（宽w）在长时间尺度上随机演化，因为与由相同资源生产率支持的、种群规模较小的专化集群相比，它们更不易受到灭绝风险的影响。
摘要: 共享栖息地的物种会协同演化以利用可用资源，因为消费受到消费者与资源之间竞争和负反馈回路的调节。给定物种的食性范围决定了其可获取的资源，从而决定了与之竞争的其他物种。狭窄的食性范围以过度依赖少量资源为代价避免竞争；相反，广泛的食性范围提供了更多替代选择，但也增加了与其他物种竞争的机会。在此，我们研究了生态位形成数学模型中食性范围的演化。我们发现了高度路径依赖的协同演化动力学，其特征是长寿命的准稳态。最终，随机效应驱动了泛化食性的演化，正如我们在分析和模拟中所揭示的。