Baobab Group

Members

baobab team

Baobab is a French research team of the Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, and at the same time represents the core of a European research team of Inria called Erable. Besides the members of Baobab, Erable has thus members in three institutions in Italy (Sapienza University of Rome, Luiss University, and University of Pisa) and two institutions in the Netherlands (CWI and Free University of Amsterdam).

Baobab has two main sets of research goals that currently cover four axes:

  • Goals:

    • The first is related to the original areas of expertise of the team, namely combinatorial and statistical modelling and algorithms, although more recently the team has also been joined by members that come from biology including experimental.

    • The second set of goals concern its main Life Science interest which is to better understand interactions between living systems and their environment. This includes close and often persistent interactions between two living systems (symbiosis), interactions between living systems and viruses, and interactions between living systems and chemical compounds.

  • Axes:

    • (pan)genomics and transcriptomics in general,

    • metabolism and (post)transcriptional regulation,

    • (co)evolution

    • health in general, of living systems and environmental.

A longer objective of the team is to become able in some cases to suggest the means of controlling for or of re-establishing equilibrium in an interacting community by acting on its environment or on its players, how they play and who plays.

Two major steps are constantly involved in the research done by the team: a first one of modelling (i.e. translating) a Life Science problem into a mathematical one, and a second of algorithm analysis and design. The algorithms developed are then applied to the questions of interest in Life Science using data from the literature or from collaborators. More recently, thanks to the recruitment of young researchers (PhD students and postdocs) in biology, the team has become able to start doing experiments and producing data or validating some of the results obtained on its own.

From a methodological point of view, the main characteristic of the team is to consider that, once a model is selected, the algorithms to explore such model should, whenever possible, be exact in the answer provided as well as exhaustive when more than one exists for a more accurate interpretation of the results. More recently, the team has become interested in exploring the interface between exact algorithms on one hand, and probabilistic or statistical ones on the other such as used in machine learning approaches. More in particular, the team is interested in investigating an area of research called “interpretable machine learning” that has been developing more recently and its potential relations with exact, combinatorial approaches.

Besides being at the core of a European team, Baobab has a number of other collaborations at the international level.

Baobab is also strongly involved in teaching at the University of Lyon and Insa-Lyon, well as in other research institutions in Europe, directly or through the members of Erable that are not in France.

For more information, you may also visit the site of the Inria team Erable here: http://team.inria.fr/erable/en/.

 

Publications

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The solution space of sorting by reversals

Marília D.V. Braga, Marie-France Sagot, Celine Scornavacca, Eric Tannier

3rd International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA 2007) . 4463 : 293-304

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72031-7_27

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Evolution under Reversals: Parsimony and Conservation of Common Intervals

Y. Diekmann, M.-F. Sagot, Eric Tannier

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics . 4 : 301-309

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Regulation of expression following nutritional stresses in the reduced genome of Buchnera aphidicola, "Is there any life left?

Yvan Rahbé, H. Charles, J. Vinuelas, N. Reymond, Federica Calevro, J.M. Fayard...

Seminarios del Institut Cavanilles de Biodiversitat i Biologia Evolutiva (ICBiBE) - Univ. Valencia (ESP) . : 1-1

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Metabolic network visualization eliminating node redundance and preserving metabolic pathways

Romain Bourqui, L. Cottret, Vincent Lacroix, D. Auber, P. Mary, M.-F. Sagot...

BMC Biology . 1 - n°29 : 1-19

DOI: 10.1186/1752-0509-1-29

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Advances on sorting by reversals

Eric Tannier, A. Bergeron, M.-F. Sagot

Discrete Applied Mathematics . 155 : 881-888

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Repetition-free longest common subsequence

S.S. Adi, M.D.V. Braga, C.G. Fernandes, C.E. Ferreira, F.V. Martinez, M.-F. Sagot...

IV Latin-American Algorithms, Graphs and Optimization Symposium (LAGOS) . 30 : 243-248

DOI: 10.1016/j.endm.2008.01.042

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The maximum agreement forest problem: Approximation algorithms and computational experiments

E. Rodrigues, M.-F. Sagot, Y. Wakabayashi

Theoretical Computer Science . 374 : 91-110

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Enumerating precursor sets of target metabolites in a metabolic network

L. Cottret, P.V. Milreu, Vicente Acuna, A. Marchetti-Spaccamela, F. Viduani Martinez, M.F. Sagot...

8th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) . 5251 : 233-244

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Recherche de précurseurs dans un réseau métabolique

L. Cottret, Vicente Acuna, H. Charles, M.F. Sagot

Réseaux d'interaction : analyse, modélisation et simulation (RIAMS) . : 1-1

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All Maximal Pairs in Step-Leap Representation of Melodic Sequences

Emilios Cambouropoulos, Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Marie-France Sagot

Information Sciences . 177 ( 9 ) : 1954-1962

DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2006.11.012

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SymBioCyc: Metabolic data on endosymbiotic, parasitic and free bacteria

L. Cottret, H. Charles, M.F. Sagot

Integrative Post-Genomics - IPG'07 . : 1-1

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Identification de motifs dans les réseaux métaboliques

Vincent Lacroix

Thesis

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Mycotoxin fumonisin B-1 selectively down-regulates the basal IL-8 expression in pig intestine: in vivo and in vitro studies

S Bouhet, E Le Dorze, Sabine Pérès, Jm Fairbrother, Isabelle P. Oswald

Food and Chemical Toxicology . 44 ( 10 ) : 1768-1773

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Uncovering structure in biological networks

J.J. Daudin, Vincent Lacroix, M. Mariadassou, V. Miele, Franck Picard, S. Robin...

incollection . -- : 471-483

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Motif search in graphs: application to metabolic networks.

Vincent Lacroix, C.G. Fernandes, M.-F. Sagot

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics . 3 - n°4 : 360-368

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Longest Repeats with a Block of k Don't Cares

Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Marie-France Sagot

Theoretical Computer Science . 362 ( 1-3 ) : 248-254

DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2006.06.029

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RISOTTO: Fast extraction of motifs with mismatches

N. Pisanti, A. Carvalho, L. Marsan, M.-F. Sagot

Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics . 3887 : 757-768

DOI: 10.1007/11682462_69

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The Gapped-Factor Tree

Pierre Peterlongo, Julien Allali, Marie-France Sagot

Prague Stringology Conference 2006 . : 182--196

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An efficient algorithm for the identification of structured motifs in DNA promoter sequences

A.M. Carvalho, A.T. Freitas, A.L. Oliveira, M.-F. Sagot

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics . 3 : 126-140

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Lossless Filter for Long Multiple Repetitions with Edit Distance

Pierre Peterlongo, Nadia Pisanti, Alair Peirera Do Lago, Marie-France Sagot

Report

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Metabolic network visualization using constraint planar graph drawing Algorithm

Romain Bourqui, David Auber, Vincent Lacroix, Fabien Jourdan

Metabolic network visualization using constraint planar graph drawing Algorithm . : 489 - 496

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Metabolic network visualization using constraint planar graph drawing algorithm

Romain Bourqui, D. Auber, Vincent Lacroix, F. Jourdan

incollection . -- : 489-496

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Un Algorithme Contraint de Dessin de Graphe Planaire pour la Visualisation de Réseaux Métaboliques

Romain Bourqui, David Auber, Vincent Lacroix, Fabien Jourdan

Un Algorithme Contraint de Dessin de Graphe Planaire pour la Visualisation de Réseaux Métaboliques . : électronique

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Lossless Filter for Finding Long Multiple Approximate Repetitions Using a New Data Structure, the Bi-factor Array

Pierre Peterlongo, Nadia Pisanti, Frederique Boyer, Marie-France Sagot

String Processing and Information Retrieval, 12th International Conference, SPIRE 2005 . 3772 : 179-190

DOI: 10.1007/11575832

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Reaction Motifs in Metabolic Networks

Vincent Lacroix, Cristina Gomes Fernandes, Marie-France Sagot

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Report

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Perfect Sorting by Reversals

Marie-France Sagot, Eric Tannier

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Report

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A Comparative Study of Bases for Motif Inference

Nadia Pisanti, Maxime Crochemore, Roberto Grossi, Marie-France Sagot

String Algorithmics . : 195-225

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A Pattern Extraction Algorithm for Abstract Melodic Representations that Allow Partial Overlapping of Intervallic Categories

Emilios Cambouropoulos, Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Manal Mohamed, Marie-France Sagot

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR 2005) . : 167-174

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A Multiple Graph Layers Model with Application to RNA Secondary Structures Comparison

Julien Allali, Marie-France Sagot

String Processing and Information Retrieval 2005 (SPIRE 2005) . 3772 : 348--359

DOI: 10.1007/11575832_39

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Reaction motifs in metabolic networks

Vincent Lacroix, C.G. Fernandes, M.-F. Sagot

International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) . 3692 : 178-191

DOI: 10.1007/11557067_15

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