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Ammar Tareen

Principal Scientist at Regeneron
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Logomaker: beautiful sequence logos in Python

A Tareen, JB Kinney - Bioinformatics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sequence logos are visually compelling ways of illustrating the biological properties of DNA,
RNA and protein sequences, yet it is currently difficult to generate and customize such …

[HTML][HTML] MAVE-NN: learning genotype-phenotype maps from multiplex assays of variant effect

A Tareen, M Kooshkbaghi, A Posfai, WT Ireland… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are a family of methods that includes deep
mutational scanning experiments on proteins and massively parallel reporter assays on gene …

Biophysical models of cis-regulation as interpretable neural networks

A Tareen, JB Kinney - arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.03560, 2019 - arxiv.org
The adoption of deep learning techniques in genomics has been hindered by the difficulty
of mechanistically interpreting the models that these techniques produce. In recent years, a …

Structural and mechanistic basis of σ-dependent transcriptional pausing

…, M Kooshkbaghi, A Tareen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
In σ-dependent transcriptional pausing, the transcription initiation factor σ, translocating with
RNA polymerase (RNAP), makes sequence-specific protein–DNA interactions with a …

Density estimation on small data sets

WC Chen, A Tareen, JB Kinney - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
How might a smooth probability distribution be estimated with accurately quantified uncertainty
from a limited amount of sampled data? Here we describe a field-theoretic approach that …

Modeling evolution of crosstalk in noisy signal transduction networks

A Tareen, NS Wingreen, R Mukhopadhyay - Physical Review E, 2018 - APS
Signal transduction networks can form highly interconnected systems within cells due to
crosstalk between constituent pathways. To better understand the evolutionary design principles …

[PDF][PDF] MAVE-NN: Quantitative Modeling of Genotype-Phenotype Maps as Information Bottlenecks

A Tareen, WT Ireland, A Posfai, DM McCandlish… - BioRxiv, 2020 - scholar.archive.org
Multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs) are being rapidly adopted in many areas of biology
including gene regulation, protein science, and evolution. However, inferring quantitative …

Configurations and path planning of convex planar polygonal loops

…, J Kramer, J Moran, C Pietras, A Tareen… - … Foundations of Robotics …, 2013 - Springer
Polygonal loops are interesting both as classical geometric objects and in modeling practical
engineering systems, eg, grasping systems with fingers having planar revolute joints. …

[PDF][PDF] mavenn Documentation

A Tareen, JB Kinney - 2023 - mavenn.readthedocs.io
MAVE-NN 1 enables the rapid quantitative modeling of genotype-phenotype (GP) maps from
the data produced by multiplex assays of variant effect (MAVEs). Such assays include deep …

[PDF][PDF] Additional file 1: Appendix for “MAVE-NN: learning genotype-phenotype maps from multiplex assays of variant effect”

A Tareen, M Kooshkbaghi, A Posfai, WT Ireland… - authors.library.caltech.edu
Here we show that Ivar provides a variational lower bound on Ipre. This fact was previously
described by Barber and Agakov (2003) in the general context of mutual information …