RNA Velocity: a mathematical model to predict cellular differentiations

In genetics and genomics, more and more researchers get interested in modelling
continuous cellular differentiations thanks to “gene activities” (synthesis
of RNA). In this talk, we present a recent mathematical model, named RNA Velocity,
which aims to compute vectors indicating the direction of developments
inside large samples of cells. We also describe some perspectives for this tool
in the detection of genes responsible of specific cellular specializations, which
constitutes the core of our research project in GIGA (ULiège) for the next years.