Köhs, Lukas (2023)
Bayesian inference and learning in switching biological systems.
Technische Universität Darmstadt
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023022
Ph.D. Thesis, Primary publication, Publisher's Version
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Item Type: | Ph.D. Thesis | ||||
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Type of entry: | Primary publication | ||||
Title: | Bayesian inference and learning in switching biological systems | ||||
Language: | English | ||||
Referees: | Koeppl, Prof. Dr. Heinz ; Opper, Prof. Dr. Manfred | ||||
Date: | 2023 | ||||
Place of Publication: | Darmstadt | ||||
Collation: | xvi, 163 Seiten | ||||
Date of oral examination: | 15 December 2022 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26083/tuprints-00023022 | ||||
Abstract: | This thesis is concerned with the stochastic modeling of and inference for switching biological systems. Motivated by the great variety of data obtainable from such systems by wet-lab experiments or computer simulations, continuous-time as well as discrete-time frameworks are devised. Similarly, different latent state-space configurations - both hybrid continuous-discrete and purely discrete state spaces - are considered. These models enable Bayesian inferences about the temporal system dynamics as well as the respective parameters. Starting with the exact model formulations, principled approximations are derived using sampling and variational techniques, enabling computationally tractable algorithms. The resulting frameworks are evaluated under the modeling assumption and subsequently applied to common benchmark problems and real-world biological data. These developments are divided into three scientific contributions: First, a Markov chain Monte Carlo method for continuous-time and continuous-discrete state-space hybrid processes is derived. These hybrid processes are formulated as Markov-switching stochastic differential equations, for which the exact evolution equation is also presented. A Gibbs sampling scheme is then derived which enables tractable inference both for the system dynamics and the system parameters. This approach is validated under the modeling assumption as well as applied to data from a wet-lab gene-switching experiment. Second, a variational approach to the same problem is taken to speed up the inference procedure. To this end, a mixture of Gaussian processes serves as the variational measure. The method is derived starting from the Kullback-Leibler divergence between two true switching stochastic differential equations, and it is shown in which regime the Gaussian mixture approximation is valid. It is then benchmarked on the same ground-truth data as the Gibbs sampler and applied to model systems from computational structural biology. Third, a nonparametric inference framework is laid out for conformational molecule switching. Here, a purely discrete latent state space is assumed, where each latent state corresponds to one molecular structure. Utilizing variational techniques again, a method is presented to identify the number of conformations present in the data. This method generalizes the framework of Markov state models, which is well-established in the field of computational structural biology. An observation likelihood model tailored to structural molecule data is introduced, along with a suitable approximation enabling tractable inference. This framework, too, is first evaluated on data generated under the model assumption and then applied to common problems in the field. |
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Status: | Publisher's Version | ||||
URN: | urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-230220 | ||||
Classification DDC: | 500 Science and mathematics > 510 Mathematics 500 Science and mathematics > 570 Life sciences, biology 600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering |
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Divisions: | 18 Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology > Self-Organizing Systems Lab | ||||
TU-Projects: | EC/H2020|773196|CONSYN | ||||
Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2023 13:33 | ||||
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 12:29 | ||||
URI: | https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/23022 | ||||
PPN: | 503870625 | ||||
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