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We use non-parametric Gaussian process regression for modelling the propagation of Bicoid in the embryo and infer aspects of source regulation as a posterior function.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results: With synthetic data from a 1D diffusion model with a source simulated to model mRNA stability regulation, our results establish that the Gaussian process method can accurately infer the driving function and capture the spatio-temporal dynamics of embryonic Bicoid propagation. On real data from the FlyEx database, too, the reconstructed source function is indicative of stability regulation, but is temporally smoother than what we expected, partly due to the fact that the dataset is only partially observed. To be in line with recent thinking on the subject, we also analyse this model with a spatial gradient of maternal mRNA, rather than being fixed at only the anterior pole.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Contact: \u00a0m.niranjan@southampton.ac.uk<\/jats:p><jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btr658","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,12,1]],"date-time":"2011-12-01T05:29:54Z","timestamp":1322717394000},"page":"366-372","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["Gaussian process modelling for<i>bicoid<\/i>mRNA regulation in spatio-temporal Bicoid profile"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"28","author":[{"given":"Wei","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK"}]},{"given":"Mahesan","family":"Niranjan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,11,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023012512170316900_B1","first-page":"9","article-title":"Latent force models","volume-title":"Proceedings of The Twelfth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics.","author":"Alvarez","year":"2009"},{"key":"2023012512170316900_B2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"e1000548","DOI":"10.1371\/journal.pcbi.1000548","article-title":"Gene circuit analysis of the terminal gap gene huckebein","volume":"5","author":"Ashyraliyev","year":"2009","journal-title":"PLoS Comput. 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