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Record W4412674132 · doi:10.1101/2025.07.22.666141

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

2025· preprint· en· W4412674132 on OpenAlexaff
Nava Leibovich, Miroslava Čuperlović‐Culf

Bibliographic record

VenuebioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2025
Typepreprint
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of OttawaNational Research Council Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPairwise comparisonDirectionalityInferenceComputer scienceBenchmark (surveying)Machine learningArtificial intelligenceCausal inferenceData miningStatistical inferenceComplex networkMechanism (biology)Computational biologyBiologyEconometricsMathematicsStatisticsCartographyGeography

Abstract

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Abstract 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.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.017
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.063
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.017
Threshold uncertainty score0.092

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0170.063
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0060.006
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0030.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.267
Teacher spread0.227 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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