arXiv preprints from January 1, 2026 through September 19, 2026 — 23:54:33 EST
Prenatal maternal distress has been linked to differences in offspring brain and behavioural development, but is rarely framed computationally. Predictive-processing (PP) accounts hold that perception, cognition, and action arise from the interplay of incoming input and internally generated predictions, governed in part by precision....
Protein fitness landscapes contain nonlinear interactions in which mutation effects depend on other residues. We introduce ORBIT, an Order-Resolved Benchmarking of Interaction Transformations framework that separates interaction presence, representation accessibility, and functional recovery. ORBIT first validates Walsh-based...
Evolution in changing environments requires both reliable expression of the currently favored phenotype, as quantified by penetrance, and the capacity to reach alternative phenotypes through mutation. Previous studies suggest that high penetrance may restrict such mutational access. However, because these studies focus on evolved...
A holistic approach to chemical mixtures is reshaping risk assessment emphasizing mixture testing over single compounds eliminating animal testing and advancing modeling methods. Most computational models still focus on individual chemicals and conventional mixture models like concentration addition and independent action are limited...
Messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutics have emerged as a powerful platform for vaccines, protein replacement therapies, and cancer immunotherapy. A critical bottleneck in mRNA development is manufacturing large quantities of RNA economically, as measured by RNA yield emerging from an in vitro transcription (IVT) reaction. However,...
Over the past decades, it has become increasingly clear that the complex morphology of cortical neurons is more than just a quirk of evolution, and that dendritic compartments serve as computational elements in their own right, rather than just providing connections between nerve cell bodies. While most computational studies discuss...
We review, clarify, and generalize a recently proposed evolutionary information-theoretic model of the holobiont, in which evolutionary change is quantified using Jeffreys divergence and partitioned into contributions from the host, microbial components, and host-microbiome associations. Building on these partitions, we develop...
Protein function is governed by conformational ensembles, which can be viewed as high-dimensional probability distributions over molecular conformations. Yet the statistical organization of these distributions is often represented only implicitly, either through collections of simulation trajectories or within high-capacity generative...
Temperature-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) channels play a significant role in intercellular signalling in response to membrane depolarisation and caclium influx. TRPM8 ion channels have been investigated as the main cold receptors (neurosensors), but they can also be activated by voltage, $Ca^{2+}$ store depletion, and...
Phytoplankton play a central role in marine ecosystems and the global carbon cycle, with different groups contributing differently to ocean biogeochemical processes. While standard techniques exist for monitoring phytoplankton concentration from ocean-colour data, their community composition remains difficult to observe at large...
The classical duplication episode clustering (EC) model introduced by Guigó et al. in the 1990s provides a foundational approach for inferring genomic duplication events crucial to understanding genome evolution. This model clusters single gene duplications from a collection of gene trees at locations in the species tree to minimize...
Over the past decades, it has become increasingly clear that the complex morphology of cortical neurons is more than just a quirk of evolution, and that dendritic compartments serve as computational elements in their own right, rather than just providing connections between nerve cell bodies. While most computational studies discuss...
Computational pathway design often focuses on evaluating selected pathways or optimizing fluxes in a fixed network, but gives less direct access to the combinatorial question of which other enzyme subsets of the network can support productive alternative pathways. A structured computational analysis of these networks can act as a...
Conventional annotation of single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data relies heavily on manual, marker-based thresholding, an approach that can obscure subtle transcriptomic gradients and collapse functionally distinct cell states into broad, heterogeneous populations. Here we apply the Gaussian multi-Graphical Model (GmGM)...
Our capacity to maintain focus on task-relevant goals over time is constrained because attentional states wax and wane moment to moment. One theoretical account posits that temporal filling-in - filling temporal blank intervals between target stimuli - reduces attentional fluctuations to enhance sustained attention. This proposal,...
The origin of life is the first, arguably, the most important and also the most enigmatic major transition in evolution (MTE). As all MTE, the transition at the origin of life can be constructively addressed only within the conceptual framework of multilevel selection. The two levels of selection relevant for the origin of life are...
Reengineered biological systems have the potential to revolutionize chemical and material production, enhance critical mineral recovery, serve as threat sensors and improve human health. Unfortunately, the extreme complexity of organisms has made it difficult to achieve this potential in all but the simplest cases. Recent...
We study the evolution of cooperation in a finite haploid population whose individuals carry both a strategy and a phenotype on a finite periodic space. Cooperators help with a probability that decays exponentially with phenotypic distance, generating graded phenotype-dependent assortment. Under weak selection and a large-population...
Hippocampal replay is a phenomenon observed in mammals and songbirds where neural activation sequences experienced during wakeful periods are repeated during rest or sleep. This mechanism is believed to play a crucial role in episodic memory consolidation, retrieval, and planning. Interestingly, replay can occur in both forward and...
The 5' untranslated region is a major determinant of translation initiation, and its effect becomes especially important in modified mRNA sequences, where start-codon context, cap-proximal secondary structure, upstream AUGs and upstream open reading frames, and nucleotide chemistry can alter ribosome scanning and initiation...
Network Hamiltonian Models (NHMs) provide an efficient framework for modeling the aggregation of interacting particles (e.g., the condensation of proteins into gel-like, oligomeric, or fibrillar states), representing the system as a network whose edges represent bound interactions. Terms within the network Hamiltonian represent...
Purpose: Nocturnal hypoglycemia (NH) remains a challenge for individuals with type 1 diabetes (T1D), particularly those who are physically active or on multiple daily injections (MDI). We leveraged an explainable evidential neural network model that forecasts minimum overnight glucose to identify NH risk factors and generate...
Metabolic networks play pivotal roles in understanding the evolution of organisms, microbiome dynamics and disease prevention and treatment. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of metabolic network properties across 10912 organisms spanning Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya domains. A novel method for the network construction is...
Models incorporating household structure, with different rates of transmission within and between households, are widely used in infectious disease epidemiology. These models can be calibrated using final-size data in which transmission ordering is ignored because it does not affect the distribution of final outbreak sizes. In...
The scientific study of consciousness frequently stalls on ontological debates regarding the "Hard Problem." This paper proposes a pragmatic pivot. Rather than asking what consciousness is metaphysically, we ask how modeling conscious access as a specific computational transformation may address existing bottlenecks in neuroscience...