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Pairwise Causal Discovery in Biochemical Network: A Survey on Directionality Inference within Complex Networks from Stationary Observations

Leibovich, N.; Cuperlovic-Culf, M.

2025-07-26 systems biology
10.1101/2025.07.22.666141 bioRxiv
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Metabolic networks map complex biochemical reactions within organisms, which is crucial for understanding cellular processes and metabolite flow. This study focuses on inferring the directionality of interactions in metabolomics networks. Given the challenge of using steady-state data, we benchmark various methods, including statistical scores and neural network approaches, on synthetic yet realistic biological models. Our findings highlight the relative success of a few methods in some cases where the interaction mechanism is known, whereas other methods show limited effectiveness.

Published in PLOS One · not in our set (fewer than 10 published preprints to learn from) · training set

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