Synthesizing developmental trajectories.
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SUBMITTER: Villoutreix P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5619836 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Synthesizing developmental trajectories.
Villoutreix Paul P Andén Joakim J Lim Bomyi B Lu Hang H Kevrekidis Ioannis G IG Singer Amit A Shvartsman Stanislav Y SY
PLoS computational biology 20170918 9
Dynamical processes in biology are studied using an ever-increasing number of techniques, each of which brings out unique features of the system. One of the current challenges is to develop systematic approaches for fusing heterogeneous datasets into an integrated view of multivariable dynamics. We demonstrate that heterogeneous data fusion can be successfully implemented within a semi-supervised learning framework that exploits the intrinsic geometry of high-dimensional datasets. We illustrate ...[more]
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