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Decoding the Latent Patterns of Life

We aim to expand the understanding of biological phenomena by mathematically capturing the patterns and structures hidden behind complex data in life sciences—omics, imaging, structure, literature, and more.

Pattern Recognition of Life Science Data
Overview figure of GLDADec, a marker-gene guided LDA model for bulk gene expression deconvolution

GLDADec: marker-gene guided LDA modeling for bulk gene expression deconvolution

Iori Azuma, Tadahaya Mizuno, Hiroyuki Kusuhara
Briefings in Bioinformatics (2024)

Inferring cell type proportions from bulk transcriptome data is crucial in immunology and oncology. Here, we introduce guided LDA deconvolution (GLDADec), a bulk deconvolution method that guides topics using cell type-specific marker gene names to estimate topic distributions for each sample.

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Figure showing Transformer models' difficulty recognizing molecular chirality from string representations

Difficulty in chirality recognition for Transformer architectures learning chemical structures from string representations

Yasuhiro Yoshikai, Tadahaya Mizuno, Shumpei Nemoto & Hiroyuki Kusuhara
Nature Communications (2024)

We found that the Transformer requires particularly long training to learn chirality and sometimes stagnates with low performance due to misunderstanding of enantiomers.

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