Systems analysis reveals neuregulin-1 control of cardiomyocyte size and shape mediated by distinct PI3K and p38 pathways

By integrating high-content morphological profiling, phospho-protein arrays, and systems modeling, this study reveals that neuregulin-1 uniquely drives cardiomyocyte elongation and area expansion through distinct PI3K and p38 signaling pathways, offering new mechanistic insights for selectively targeting maladaptive cardiac remodeling.

Luanpaisanon, P., Ryall, K. A., Tan, P. M. + 7 more2026-03-12📄 systems biology

GRNFormer: Accurate Gene Regulatory Network Inference Using Graph Transformer

GRNFormer is a generalizable graph transformer framework that accurately infers gene regulatory networks from single-cell and bulk transcriptomics data across diverse species and cell types by integrating a transformer-based expression encoder with a variational graph autoencoder and transcription factor-anchored sampling, outperforming existing methods in benchmark evaluations.

Hegde, A., Cheng, J.2026-03-11📄 systems biology

mRNA-Protein Coordination is Contextualized by Metastatic Biological Phenotypes

This study demonstrates that standard linear machine learning models can reveal nuanced mRNA-protein coordination in cancer metastasis, showing that while both modalities often provide consistent phenotypic information, integrating their complementary and reinforcing signals yields superior predictive performance compared to using transcriptomics alone.

Sharma, R., Meimetis, N., Begzati, A. + 3 more2026-03-11📄 systems biology

OrthoGather: a local platform for orthology-based proteome and proteomics comparisons and Gene Ontology enrichment

OrthoGather is a locally hosted web application designed to streamline comparative proteomic analysis and Gene Ontology enrichment across species by integrating orthology inference with flexible functional annotation, thereby lowering technical barriers for researchers without computational expertise.

Vivas-Rodriguez, C., Matallanas, D., Ryan, C. J. + 3 more2026-03-11📄 systems biology

Blood Biochemical Responses to Acute Exercise: Findings from the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC)

This study utilizes large-scale multi-omics profiling of sedentary humans to characterize the distinct and shared temporal blood-based molecular responses to acute endurance and resistance exercise, revealing novel insights into systemic health pathways such as immune regulation, lipid metabolism, and tissue repair.

Robbins, J. M., Katz, D. H., Many, G. + 16 more2026-03-11📄 systems biology

Thymic selection of the T cell receptor repertoire is biased toward autoimmunity in females

This study reveals that while the overall T cell receptor repertoire is similar between sexes, females exhibit a specific thymic selection bias characterized by an increased prevalence of T cells targeting autoimmunity-associated self-antigens and a reduced frequency of regulatory T cells with such specificities, providing a mechanistic explanation for the higher susceptibility of women to autoimmune diseases.

Vantomme, H., Quiniou, V., Adda, L. + 15 more2026-03-10📄 systems biology

Phase-space distance between stationary states mudulates phenotypic plasticity in breast cancer

This paper establishes that the phase-space distance between stationary states, rather than potential depth, serves as a robust geometric determinant of transition probabilities and timescales in breast cancer gene regulatory networks, thereby explaining the distinct dynamical robustness of HER2+ tumors versus the high heterogeneity and sensitivity of TNBC.

Duarte de Araujo Caldas, M., de Assis Bento Lima, A., Lopes, F. J. P.2026-03-10📄 systems biology

Reconstructing biologically coherent cellular profiles from imaging-based spatial transcriptomics

The paper introduces TRACER, a reference-free method that leverages gene-gene coherence and spatial co-localization to reconstruct biologically coherent cellular profiles from imaging-based spatial transcriptomics data, thereby resolving mixed profiles and recovering cells with undetected nuclei to improve downstream biological analyses.

Yuan, L., Zheng, Y., Zhang, S. + 2 more2026-03-10📄 systems biology

Multi-omic responses to acute exercise in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue of sedentary adults: findings from MoTrPAC

This study utilizes multi-omic profiling to map the distinct, time-resolved molecular responses of abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue to acute endurance and resistance exercise in sedentary adults, revealing specific mechanisms involving angiogenesis, metabolism, and exerkine release that underpin exercise-induced metabolic health benefits.

Ahn, C., Jin, C. A., Whytock, K. L. + 25 more2026-03-09📄 systems biology

Structured Schemas for LLM-Modeler Collaboration in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Model Calibration

The paper introduces MAPLE, a framework utilizing structured validation schemas to facilitate collaboration between large language models and human modelers, thereby ensuring the accurate, provenance-rich, and reproducible extraction of calibration data for quantitative systems pharmacology models while mitigating common LLM errors like hallucination.

Eliason, J., Popel, A. S.2026-03-09📄 systems biology

Metal binding site alignment enables network-driven discovery of recurrent geometries across sequence-divergent proteins and drug off-targets

This study introduces a network-driven framework that aligns metal-binding sites as atomic point clouds to reveal conserved geometric motifs across sequence-divergent proteins, thereby elucidating evolutionary relationships and predicting drug off-targets based on structural similarity rather than sequence homology.

Simensen, V., Almaas, E.2026-03-09📄 systems biology

Dynamic effects of fructose and Momordica charantia supplementation on pulmonary hypertension in broiler chickens

This study demonstrates that short-term, low-dose supplementation with either high-fructose corn syrup or Momordica charantia reduces pulmonary hypertension severity in broiler chickens, with high-fructose corn syrup showing superior efficacy, while validating the use of a system dynamics model to evaluate these nutritional interventions.

Vargas-Villamil, L. M., Garcia Medina, A. D. C., Zaldivar Cruz, J. M. + 4 more2026-03-09📄 systems biology

Toroidal Search Algorithm: A Topology-Inspired Metaheuristic with Applications to ODE Parameterization in Mathematical Oncology

The paper introduces the Toroidal Search Algorithm (TSA), a novel topology-inspired metaheuristic that eliminates boundary stagnation through toroidal geometry and winding numbers, demonstrating superior performance in high-dimensional optimization and successfully solving inverse parameterization problems in mathematical oncology.

Oh, C., Wilkie, K. P.2026-03-07📄 systems biology

Metabolic Trans-Omic Analysis Reveals Key Regulatory Disruption of Energy Metabolism in Alzheimer's Disease

By integrating multi-omic data from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, this study reconstructs a metabolic regulatory network in Alzheimer's disease that reveals a coordinated downregulation of energy-producing pathways driven by reduced enzyme abundance and inhibitory allosteric effects, alongside conflicting regulatory influences on glycolysis.

Katayama, T., Sugimoto, H., Morita, K. + 2 more2026-03-06📄 systems biology