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ReviewCell systems2024

The structure is the message: Preserving experimental context through tensor decomposition.

Zhixin Cyrillus Tan, Aaron S Meyer

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Review in Cell systems, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Tensor-based integration of time-series measurements reveals relationships between underlying disease, early injury, and T cell polarization in liver transplantation.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zhixin Cyrillus TanBioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: cytan@ucla.edu.
Aaron S MeyerBioinformatics Interdepartmental Program, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Bioengineering, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: ameyer@asmlab.org.

Funding

Systems Epigenomics of Persistent Bloodstream InfectionU19AI172713 · NIAID · LUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER · PI Michael R Yeaman · 2023 to 2026
$11.6M
Mapping the effector response space of antibody combinationsU01AI148119 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI MEYER, AARON SAMUEL, NIMMERJAHN, FALK · 2020 to 2024
$1.6M
NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI148119NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI172713
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent biological studies have been revolutionized in scale and granularity by multiplex and high-throughput assays. Profiling cell responses across several experimental parameters, such as perturbations, time, and genetic contexts, leads to richer and more generalizable findings. However, these multidimensional datasets necessitate a reevaluation of the conventional methods for their representation and analysis. Traditionally, experimental parameters are merged to flatten the data into a two-dimensional matrix, sacrificing crucial experiment context reflected by the structure. As Marshall McLuhan famously stated, "the medium is the message." In this work, we propose that the experiment structure is the medium in which subsequent analysis is performed, and the optimal choice of data representation must reflect the experiment structure. We review how tensor-structured analyses and decompositions can preserve this information. We contend that tensor methods are poised to become integral to the biomedical data sciences toolkit.

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Computational BiologyAlgorithmsAnimalsHumansdimensionality reductionexploratory data analysistensor decompositions

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PMID39173584
PMCPMC11366223

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