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20152026
most citedTopologyNet: Topology based deep convolutional neural networks for biomolecular property predictions

361 citations · 786 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

q-bio.QM2026

RAFT-UP: Robust Alignment for Spatial Transcriptomics with Explicit Control of Spatial Distortion

Yaqi Wu, Jingfeng Wang, Xin Maizie Zhou +2

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) profiles gene expression across a tissue section while preserving the spatial coordinates. Because current ST technologies typically profile two-dimens…

math.OC2026

Synchronization of Unbalanced Dynamical Optimal Transport across Multiple Spaces

Zixuan Cang, Jingfeng Wang, Xiaoqi Wei +1

Many biological systems are observed through heterogeneous modalities, requiring transport models that couple dynamics across spaces while allowing mass variation. To address this…

q-bio.QM2025

PHD-MS: Multiscale Domain Identification for Spatial Transcriptomics via Persistent Homology

Perry Beamer, Zixuan Cang

Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression at a set of spatial locations in a tissue. Communities of nearby cells that express similar genes form \textit{spatial domains…

q-bio.BM2025

OTMol: Robust Molecular Structure Comparison via Optimal Transport

Xiaoqi Wei, Xuhang Dai, Yaqi Wu +3

Root-mean-square deviation (RMSD) is widely used to assess structural similarity in systems ranging from flexible ligand conformers to complex molecular cluster configurations. Des…

math.OC2024

Synchronized Optimal Transport for Joint Modeling of Dynamics Across Multiple Spaces

Zixuan Cang, Yanxiang Zhao

Optimal transport has been an essential tool for reconstructing dynamics from complex data. With the increasingly available multifaceted data, a system can often be characterized a…

math.OC2024

Supervised Gromov-Wasserstein Optimal Transport

Zixuan Cang, Yaqi Wu, Yanxiang Zhao

We introduce the supervised Gromov-Wasserstein (sGW) optimal transport, an extension of Gromov-Wasserstein by incorporating potential infinity patterns in the cost tensor. sGW enab…

physics.chem-ph2023

Poisson-Boltzmann based machine learning (PBML) model for electrostatic analysis

Jiahui Chen, Yongjia Xu, Xin Yang +3

Electrostatics is of paramount importance to chemistry, physics, biology, and medicine. The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is a primary model for electrostatic analysis. However, it…

q-bio.QM2023

Topological and geometric analysis of cell states in single-cell transcriptomic data

Tram Huynh, Zixuan Cang

Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables dissecting cellular heterogeneity in tissues, resulting in numerous biological discoveries. Various computational methods have been d…

math.OC2022

Supervised Optimal Transport

Zixuan Cang, Qing Nie, Yanxiang Zhao

Optimal Transport, a theory for optimal allocation of resources, is widely used in various fields such as astrophysics, machine learning, and imaging science. However, many applica…

q-bio.QM2022

AVIDA: Alternating method for Visualizing and Integrating Data

Kathryn Dover, Zixuan Cang, Anna Ma +2

High-dimensional multimodal data arises in many scientific fields. The integration of multimodal data becomes challenging when there is no known correspondence between the samples…

q-bio.BM2019★ 103 cited

A review of mathematical representations of biomolecules

Duc D Nguyen, Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Recently, machine learning (ML) has established itself in various worldwide benchmarking competitions in computational biology, including Critical Assessment of Structure Predictio…

q-bio.QM2018★ 7 cited

Persistent cohomology for data with multicomponent heterogeneous information

Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Persistent homology is a powerful tool for characterizing the topology of a data set at various geometric scales. When applied to the description of molecular structures, persisten…

q-bio.BM2018★ 7 cited

Mathematical deep learning for pose and binding affinity prediction and ranking in D3R Grand Challenges

Duc Duy Nguyen, Zixuan Cang, Kedi Wu +3

Advanced mathematics, such as multiscale weighted colored graph and element specific persistent homology, and machine learning including deep neural networks were integrated to con…

math.AT2018★ 19 cited

Evolutionary homology on coupled dynamical systems

Zixuan Cang, Elizabeth Munch, Guo-Wei Wei

Time dependence is a universal phenomenon in nature, and a variety of mathematical models in terms of dynamical systems have been developed to understand the time-dependent behavio…

q-bio.QM2017★ 285 cited

Representability of algebraic topology for biomolecules in machine learning based scoring and virtual screening

Zixuan Cang, Lin Mu, Guowei Wei

This work introduces a number of algebraic topology approaches, such as multicomponent persistent homology, multi-level persistent homology and electrostatic persistence for the re…

q-bio.QM2017★ 361 cited

TopologyNet: Topology based deep convolutional neural networks for biomolecular property predictions

Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Although deep learning approaches have had tremendous success in image, video and audio processing, computer vision, and speech recognition, their applications to three-dimensional…

q-bio.QM2017★ 4 cited

Topological fingerprints reveal protein-ligand binding mechanism

Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Protein-ligand binding is a fundamental biological process that is paramount to many other biological processes, such as signal transduction, metabolic pathways, enzyme constructio…

q-bio.QM2017

Analysis and prediction of protein folding energy changes upon mutation by element specific persistent homology

Zixuan Cang, Guo-Wei Wei

Motivation: Site directed mutagenesis is widely used to understand the structure and function of biomolecules. Computational prediction of protein mutation impacts offers a fast, e…

q-bio.BM2015

A topological approach for protein classification

Zixuan Cang, Lin Mu, Kedi Wu +3

Protein function and dynamics are closely related to its sequence and structure. However prediction of protein function and dynamics from its sequence and structure is still a fund…