Information Flow and Complexity in Large-Scale Metabolic Systems

Author(s):  
Michael Kohn ◽  
Samuel Bedrosian
Author(s):  
Marcel Tilly ◽  
Stephan Reiff-Marganiec

The deluge of intelligent objects that are providing continuous access to data and services on one hand and the demand of developers and consumers to handle these data on the other hand require us to think about new communication paradigms and middleware. In hyper-scale systems, such as in the Internet of Things, large scale sensor networks or even mobile networks, one emerging requirement is to process, procure, and provide information with almost zero latency. This work is introducing new concepts for a middleware to enable fast communication by limiting information flow with filtering concepts using policy obligations and combining data processing techniques adopted from complex event processing.


2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Smith ◽  
Rik P. van Rosmalen ◽  
Vitor A. P. Martins dos Santos ◽  
Christian Fleck

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. e80845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toru Yanagawa ◽  
Zenas C. Chao ◽  
Naomi Hasegawa ◽  
Naotaka Fujii
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Author(s):  
Philipp Schlegel ◽  
Alexander Shakeel Bates ◽  
Tomke Stürner ◽  
Sridhar R. Jagannathan ◽  
Nikolas Drummond ◽  
...  

AbstractThe hemibrain connectome (Scheffer et al., 2020) provides large scale connectivity and morphology information for the majority of the central brain of Drosophila melanogaster. Using this data set, we provide a complete description of the most complex olfactory system studied at synaptic resolution to date, covering all first, second and third-order neurons of the olfactory system associated with the antennal lobe and lateral horn (mushroom body neurons are described in a parallel paper, (Li et al., 2020)). We develop a generally applicable strategy to extract information flow and layered organisation from synaptic resolution connectome graphs, mapping olfactory input to descending interneurons. This identifies a range of motifs including highly lateralised circuits in the antennal lobe and patterns of convergence downstream of the mushroom body and lateral horn. We also leverage a second data set (FAFB, (Zheng et al., 2018)) to provide a first quantitative assessment of inter- versus intra-individual stereotypy. Complete reconstruction of select developmental lineages in two brains (three brain hemispheres) reveals striking similarity in neuronal morphology across brains for >170 cell types. Within and across brains, connectivity correlates with morphology. Notably, neurons of the same morphological type show similar connection variability within one brain as across brains; this property should enable a rigorous quantitative approach to cell typing.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 1238-1248
Author(s):  
Fu Chen ◽  
Le Yuan ◽  
Shaozhen Ding ◽  
Yu Tian ◽  
Qian-Nan Hu

Abstract A proliferation of chemical, reaction and enzyme databases, new computational methods and software tools for data-driven rational biosynthesis design have emerged in recent years. With the coming of the era of big data, particularly in the bio-medical field, data-driven rational biosynthesis design could potentially be useful to construct target-oriented chassis organisms. Engineering the complicated metabolic systems of chassis organisms to biosynthesize target molecules from inexpensive biomass is the main goal of cell factory design. The process of data-driven cell factory design could be divided into several parts: (1) target molecule selection; (2) metabolic reaction and pathway design; (3) prediction of novel enzymes based on protein domain and structure transformation of biosynthetic reactions; (4) construction of large-scale DNA for metabolic pathways; and (5) DNA assembly methods and visualization tools. The construction of a one-stop cell factory system could achieve automated design from the molecule level to the chassis level. In this article, we outline data-driven rational biosynthesis design steps and provide an overview of related tools in individual steps.


2020 ◽  
Vol 124 (6) ◽  
pp. 1948-1958
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Kristina Safar ◽  
Zahra Emami ◽  
George M. Ibrahim ◽  
Shannon E. Scratch ◽  
...  

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) disrupts the dynamic repertoire of neural oscillations, but so far beta activity has not been studied. In mTBI, we found reductions in frontal beta and large-scale beta networks, indicative of thalamocortical dysconnectivity and disrupted information flow through cortico-basal ganglia-thalamic circuits. Relatively, connectivity more accurately classifies individual mTBI cases compared with regional power. We show the relevance of beta oscillations in mTBI and the reliability of these markers in classification.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Shinq-Jen Wu ◽  
Cheng-Tao Wu

Stability analysis and dynamic simulation are important for researchers to capture the performance and the properties of underling systems. S-systems have good potential for characterizing dynamic interactive behaviour of large scale metabolic and genetic systems. It is important to develop a platform to achieve timely dynamic behaviour of S-systems to various situations. In this study, we first set up the respective block diagrams of S-systems for module-based simulation. We then derive reasonable theorems to examine the stability of S-systems and find out what kinds of environmental situations will make systems stable. Three canonical systems are used to examine the results which are carried out in the Matlab/Simulink environments.


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