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October 2025

We introduce Persistence Weighted Death Simplices (PWDS), a visualisation of the topological features detected by persistent homology in 2D imaging data. Each triangle marks the approximate location of a loop in the cell distribution, with colour indicating whether the loop is formed by proximal (red) or distal (blue) cells, and intensity reflecting its prominence. This visualisation highlights the multiscale structure of cell arrangements and provides an interpretable link between topological features and biological tissue organisation. Torras-Pérez et al. 2025

Image Credit: Maria Torras-Pérez et al.

Education Articles

Ten quick tips for developing a reproducible Shiny application

Julien Brun, Greg Janée, Renata G. Curty

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on computational biology early career researchers: A global retrospective study

Pradeep Eranti, Megha Hegde, Syed Muktadir Al Sium, R. Gonzalo Parra, Alastair M. Kilpatrick, Sayane Shome, Farzana Rahman

From ideal to practical: Heterogeneity of student-generated variant lists highlights hidden reproducibility gaps

Rumeysa Aslıhan Ertürk, Abdullah Asım Emül, Büşra Nur Darendeli-Kiraz, Fatma Zehra Sarı, Mehmet Arif Ergün, Mehmet Baysan

Ten simple rules for optimal and careful use of generative AI in science

Mohamed Helmy, Lingling Jin, Amr Alhossary, Tamer Mansour, Diogo Pellagrina, Kumar Selvarajoo

Nine quick tips for trustworthy machine learning in the biomedical sciences

Luca Oneto, Davide Chicco

Research Articles

Improving policy design and epidemic response using integrated models of economic choice and disease dynamics with behavioral feedback

Hongru Du, Matthew V. Zahn, Sara L. Loo, Tijs W. Alleman, Shaun Truelove, Bryan Patenaude, Lauren M. Gardner, Nicholas Papageorge, Alison L. Hill

A Bayesian model of distance perception from ocular convergence

Peter Scarfe, Paul B. Hibbard

Three types of remapping with linear decoders: A population-geometric perspective

Guillermo Martín-Sánchez, Christian K. Machens, William F. Podlaski

Modelling plant disease spread and containment: Simulation and approximate Bayesian Computation for Xylella fastidiosa in Puglia, Italy

Daniel Chapman, Flavia Occhibove, James M. Bullock, Pieter S. A. Beck, Juan A. Navas-Cortes, Steven M. White

A multi-layer encoder prediction model for individual sample specific gene combination effect (MLEC-iGeneCombo)

Yun Shen, Kunjie Fan, Birkan Gökbağ, Nuo Sun, Chen Yang, Lijun Cheng, Lang Li

RNAtranslator: Modeling protein-conditional RNA design as sequence-to-sequence natural language translation

Sobhan Shukueian Tabrizi, Sina Barazandeh, Helyasadat Hashemi Aghdam, A. Ercument Cicek

A mixture of attention experts-embedded flow-based generative model to create synthetic cells in single-cell RNA-Seq datasets

Sultan Sevgi Turgut Ögme, Nizamettin Aydin, Zeyneb Kurt

Host responses and viral traits interact to shape the impacts of climate warming on highly pathogenic avian influenza in migratory waterfowl

Claire S. Teitelbaum, Michael L. Casazza, Cory T. Overton, Elliott L. Matchett, Diann J. Prosser

Understanding the high-order network plasticity mechanisms of ultrasound neuromodulation

Marilyn Gatica, Cyril Atkinson-Clement, Carlos Coronel-Oliveros, Mohammad Alkhawashki, Pedro A. M. Mediano, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Fernando E. Rosas, Marcus Kaiser, Giovanni Petri

AI-driven discovery of novel extracellular matrix biomarkers in pelvic organ prolapse

Yanlin Mi, Ben Cahill, Venkata V. B. Yallapragada, Reut Rotem, Barry A. O’Reilly, Sabin Tabirca

Dynamic modelling of cell cycle arrest through integrated single-cell and mathematical modelling approaches

Javiera Cortés-Ríos, Maria Rodriguez-Fernandez, Peter Karl Sorger, Fabian Fröhlich

A digital DNA system favours the superiority of unidirectional inheritance over ‘Lamarckian’ inheritance

Aswathi Shiju, Samantha D. M. Arras, Allen G. Rodrigo, Anthony M. Poole

The mechanism of dynamic steady states in lamellipodia

June Hyung Kim, Taeyoon Kim

Mouse and human striatal projection neurons compared - somatodendritic arbor, spines and in silico analyses

Alexander Kozlov, Lidia Blazquez-Llorca, Ruth Benavides-Piccione, Asta Kastanauskaite, Ana I. Rojo, Alberto Muñoz, Antonio Cuadrado, Javier DeFelipe, Sten Grillner

Superspreading and the evolution of virulence

Xander O’Neill, Andy White, Graham R. Northrup, Chadi M. Saad-Roy, P. Signe White, Mike Boots

Spatial distribution of cytoskeleton-mediated feedback controls cell polarization: A computational study

Parijat Banerjee, Jonathan A. Kuhn, Dhiman Sankar Pal, Yu Deng, Tatsat Banerjee, Peter N. Devreotes, Pablo A. Iglesias

Importance of localized dilatation and distensibility in identifying determinants of thoracic aortic aneurysm with neural operators

David S. Li, Somdatta Goswami, Qianying Cao, Vivek Oommen, Roland Assi, Jay D. Humphrey, George E. Karniadakis

Diverse and flexible behavioral strategies arise in recurrent neural networks trained on multisensory decision making

Thomas S. Wierda, Shirin Dora, Cyriel M. A. Pennartz, Jorge F. Mejias

Environmental motion presented ahead of self-motion modulates heading direction estimation

Liana Nafisa Saftari, Jongmin Moon, Oh-Sang Kwon

Differential equation modeling of cell population dynamics in skeletal muscle regeneration from single-cell transcriptomic data

Renad Al-Ghazawi, Hassan Lezzeik, Xiaojian Shao, Theodore J. Perkins

Learning spatial hearing via innate mechanisms

Yang Chu, Wayne Luk, Dan F. M. Goodman

Enhancing antibody-antigen interaction prediction with atomic flexibility

Sara Joubbi, Alessio Micheli, Paolo Milazzo, Giorgio Ciano, Stéphane M. Gagné, Pietro Liò, Duccio Medini, Giuseppe Maccari

Social imitation dynamics of vaccination driven by vaccine effectiveness and beliefs

Feng Fu, Ran Zhuo, Xingru Chen

Understanding the mechanism of facilitation in hoverfly TSDNs

Anindya Ghosh, Sarah Nicholas, Karin Nordström, Thomas Nowotny, James Knight

Multivariate resilience indicators to anticipate vector-borne disease outbreaks: A West Nile virus case-study

Clara Delecroix, Quirine ten Bosch, Egbert H. Van Nes, Ingrid A. van de Leemput

A compact model of Escherichia coli core and biosynthetic metabolism

Marco Corrao, Hai He, Wolfram Liebermeister, Elad Noor, Arren Bar-Even

Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading

Adriana Manna, Márton Karsai, Nicola Perra

InteracTor: Feature engineering and explainable AI for profiling protein structure-interaction-function relationships

Jose Cleydson F. Silva, Layla Schuster, Nick Sexson, Melissa Erdem, Ryan Hulke, Matias Kirst, Marcio F. R. Resende, Raquel Dias

Exact conditions for evolutionary stability in indirect reciprocity under noise

Nikoleta E. Glynatsi, Christian Hilbe, Yohsuke Murase

Model-based inference of cell cycle dynamics captures alterations of the DNA replication programme

Adolfo Alsina, Marco Fumasoni, Pablo Sartori

Deep learning detection of dynamic exocytosis events in fluorescence TIRF microscopy

Hugo Lachuer, Emmanuel Moebel, Anne-Sophie Macé, Arthur Masson, Kristine Schauer, Charles Kervrann

Transmission thresholds for the spread of infections in healthcare facilities

Damon J. A. Toth, Karim Khader, Christopher Mitchell, Matthew H. Samore

CASynergy: A causal attention model for interpretable prediction of cancer drug synergy

Haitao Li, Long Zheng, Lei Li, Yiwei Chen, Junjie Li, Chunhou Zheng, Yansen Su

ArcDFI: Attention regularization guided by CYP450 interactions for predicting drug-food interactions

Mogan Gim, Jaewoo Kang, Donghyeon Park, Minji Jeon

Drug-disease networks and drug repurposing

Austin Polanco, Mark E. J. Newman

Memorization bias impacts modeling of alternative conformational states of solute carrier membrane proteins with methods from deep learning

G.V.T. Swapna, Namita Dube, Monica J. Roth, Gaetano T. Montelione

Multiscale networks in Alzheimer’s disease identify brain hypometabolism as central across biological scales

Elena Lara-Simon, Juan Domingo Gispert, Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo, Pablo Villoslada, for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

Stabilized marker gene identification and functional annotation from single-cell transcriptomic data

Sandesh Acharya, Pathum Kossinna, Qingrun Zhang, Jiami Guo

Statistical regularities in natural scenes that support figure-ground segregation by neural populations

Clara T. Friedman, Minqi Wang, Thomas Yerxa, Bryce A. Arseneau, Xin Huang, Emily A. Cooper

Homeostatic bidirectional plasticity in upbound and downbound micromodules in a model of the olivocerebellar loop

Elías M. Fernández Santoro, Lennart P.L. Landsmeer, Said Hamdioui, Christos Strydis, Chris I. De Zeeuw, Aleksandra Badura, Mario Negrello

Predicting residue ionization of OmpF channel using Constant pH Molecular Dynamics as benchmark

Ernesto Tavares-Neto, Marcel Aguilella-Arzo, Vicente M. Aguilella

Elastic analysis bridges structure and dynamics of an AAA+ molecular motor

Victor Hugo Mello, Jiri Wald, Thomas C Marlovits, Pablo Sartori

Similarity-based transfer learning with deep learning networks for accurate CRISPR-Cas9 off-target prediction

Jeremy Charlier, Zeinab Sherkatghanad, Vladimir Makarenkov

Manifold transform by recurrent cortical circuit enhances robust encoding of familiar stimuli

Weifan Wang, Xueyan Niu, Liyuan Liang, Tai-Sing Lee

BMDD: A probabilistic framework for accurate imputation of zero-inflated microbiome sequencing data

Huijuan Zhou, Jun Chen, Xianyang Zhang

A semi-automated algorithm for image analysis of respiratory organoids

Anna Demchenko, Maxim Balyasin, Elena Kondratyeva, Tatiana Kyian, Alyona Sorokina, Marina Loguinova, Svetlana Smirnikhina

Unpacking the V1 map: Differential covariation of preferred spatial frequency and cortical magnification across spatial dimensions

Marc M. Himmelberg, Yuna Kwak, Marisa Carrasco, Jonathan Winawer

Multi-feature fusion network with marginal focal dice loss for multi-label therapeutic peptide prediction

Yijun Mao, Yurong Weng, Jian Weng, Ming Li, Wanrong Gu, Rui Pang, Xudong Lin, Yunyan Xiong, Deyu Tang

Noradrenaline and acetylcholine shape functional connectivity organization of NREM substages: An empirical and simulation study

Fernando Lehue, Carlos Coronel-Oliveros, Vicente Medel, Thomas Liebe, Jörn Kaufmann, Sebastián Orellana, Diego Becerra, Enzo Tagliazucchi, Patricio Orio

Inference of weak-form partial differential equations describing migration and proliferation mechanisms in wound healing experiments on cancer cells

Siddhartha Srivastava, Patrick C. Kinnunen, Zhenlin Wang, Kenneth K.Y. Ho, Brock A. Humphries, Siyi Chen, Jennifer J. Linderman, Gary D. Luker, Kathryn E. Luker, Krishna Garikipati

Adaptive proximity to criticality underlies amplification of ultra-slow fluctuations during free recall

Dovi Yellin, Noam Siegel, Rafael Malach, Oren Shriki

Seeing what you hear: Compression of rat visual perceptual space by task-irrelevant sounds

Mattia Zanzi, Francesco G. Rinaldi, Silene Fornasaro, Eugenio Piasini, Davide Zoccolan

HMFGraph: Novel Bayesian approach for recovering biological networks

Aapo E. Korhonen, Olli Sarala, Tuomas Hautamäki, Markku Kuismin, Mikko J. Sillanpää

Ligand discrimination in immune cells: Signal processing insights into immune dysfunction in ER+ breast cancer

Adina Matache, Joao Rodrigues Lima-Junior, Maxim Kuznetsov, Konstancja Urbaniak, Sergio Branciamore, Andrei S. Rodin, Peter P. Lee, Russell C. Rockne

Block sparse Bayes-based fuzzy system for RNA N6-methyladenosine sites prediction

Leyao Wang, Mengyuan Zhao, Hao Xie, Yuqing Qian, Wenhuan Lu, Yijie Ding, Fei Guo

Corrections

Correction: Low-dimensional controllability of brain networks

Remy Ben Messaoud, Vincent Le Du, Camile Bousfiha, Marie-Constance Corsi, Juliana Gonzalez-Astudillo, Brigitte Charlotte Kaufmann, Tristan Venot, Baptiste Couvy-Duchesne, Raffaella Migliaccio, Charlotte Rosso, Paolo Bartolomeo, Mario Chavez, Fabrizio De Vico Fallani

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Correction: The role of oscillations in grid cells’ toroidal topology

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Methods

A Bayesian model for repeated cross-sectional epidemic prevalence survey data

Nicholas Steyn, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Paul Elliott, Christl A. Donnelly

A method for analysing tissue motion and deformation during mammalian organogenesis

Morena Raiola, Isaac Esteban, Kenzo Ivanovitch, Miquel Sendra, Miguel Torres

Topology across scales on heterogeneous cell data

Maria Torras-Pérez, Iris H. R. Yoon, Praveen Weeratunga, Ling-Pei Ho, Helen M. Byrne, Ulrike Tillmann, Heather A. Harrington

TastepepAI: An artificial intelligence platform for taste peptide de novo design

Jianda Yue, Tingting Li, Jian Ouyang, Jiawei Xu, Hua Tan, Zihui Chen, Changsheng Han, Huanyu Li, Songping Liang, Zhonghua Liu, Zhonghua Liu, Ying Wang

Spatial domain identification method based on multi-view graph convolutional network and contrastive learning

Xikeng Liang, Shutong Xiao, Lu Ba, Yuhui Feng, Zhicheng Ma, Fatima Adilova, Jing Qi, Shuilin Jin

Scalable, trustworthy generative model for virtual multi-staining from H&E whole slide images

Mehdi Ounissi, Ilias Sarbout, Jean-Pierre Hugot, Christine Martinez-Vinson, Dominique Berrebi, Daniel Racoceanu

Analytical and computational solution for the estimation of SNP-heritability in biobank-scale and distributed datasets

Guo-An Qi, Qi-Xin Zhang, Jingyu Kang, Tianyuan Li, Xiyun Xu, Zhe Zhang, Zhe Fan, Siyang Liu, Guo-Bo Chen

Inferring effective networks of spiking neurons using a continuous-time estimator of transfer entropy

David P. Shorten, Viola Priesemann, Michael Wibral, Joseph T. Lizier

Software

PPI-ID: Streamlining protein-protein interaction prediction through domain and SLiM mapping

Haley V. Goodwin, Nigel S. Atkinson

GeneDrive.jl: A decision tool to optimize biological vector control strategies under climate change

Váleri N. Vásquez, Erin A. Mordecai, David Anthoff

Detecting polynucleotide motifs: Pentads, hexads, and beyond

Michal Zurkowski, Maja Marusic, Dorota Gudanis-Sobocinska, Marta Szachniuk