Master regulators as order parameters of gene expression states
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns are represented as memory states of a Hopfield neural network model. It is shown that order parameters of this model can be interpreted as concentrations of master transcription regulators that form concurrent positive feedback loops with a large number of downstream regulated genes. The order parameter free energy then defines an epigenetic landscape in which local minima correspond to stable cell states. The model is applied to gene expression data in the context of hematopoiesis.
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