Publications

* Corresponding author, # co-first author

2024

  • Identifying keystone species in microbial communities using deep learning

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Sun, Zheng, Jia, Huijue, Michel-Mata, Sebastian, Angulo, Marco Tulio, Dai, Lei, He, Xuesong, Weiss, Scott T, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Nature Ecology & Evolution

  • Data-driven prediction of colonization outcomes for complex microbial communities

    Wu, Lu#, Wang, Xu-Wen#, Tao, Zining, Wang, Tong, Zuo, Wenlong, Zeng, Yu, Liu, Yang-Yu, Dai, Lei

    Nature Communications

  • Stability of ecological systems: A theoretical review

    Chen, Can, Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Physics Reports


2023

  • Predicting metabolomic profiles from microbial composition through neural ordinary differential equations

    Wang, Tong, Wang, Xu-Wen, Lee-Sarwar, Kathleen A, Litonjua, Augusto A, Weiss, Scott T, Sun, Yizhou, Maslov, Sergei, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Nature Machine Intelligence

  • Ecological dynamics imposes fundamental challenges in community-based microbial source tracking

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Wu, Lu, Dai, Lei, Yin, Xiaole, Zhang, Tong, Weiss, Scott T, Liu, Yang-Yu

    iMeta

  • Origins of scaling laws in microbial dynamics

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Physical Review Research

  • Benchmarking omics-based prediction of asthma development in children

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Wang, Tong, Schaub, Darius P, Chen, Can, Sun, Zheng, Ke, Shanlin, Hecker, Julian, Maaser-Hecker, Anna, Zeleznik, Oana A, Zeleznik, Roman, and others

    Respiratory Research

  • Nutritional redundancy in the human diet and its application in phenotype association studies

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Hu, Yang, Menichetti, Giulia, Grodstein, Francine, Bhupathiraju, Shilpa N, Sun, Qi, Zhang, Xuehong, Hu, Frank B, Weiss, Scott T, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Nature Communications


2022

  • A statistical physics approach for disease module detection

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Qiao, Dandi, Cho, Michael H, DeMeo, Dawn L, Silverman, Edwin K, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Genome Research

  • Predicting microbiome compositions from species assemblages through deep learning

    Michel-Mata, Sebastian, Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu, Angulo, Marco Tulio

    iMeta

  • Association Rule Mining of the Human Gut Microbiome

    Zhang, Yiyan, Ke, Shanlin, Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu

    bioRxiv


2021

  • Characterizing scaling laws in gut microbial dynamics from time series data: caution is warranted

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu

    bioRxiv

  • Integrating gut microbiome and host immune markers to understand the pathogenesis of Clostridioides difficile infection

    Ke, Shanlin, Pollock, Nira R, Wang, Xu-Wen, Chen, Xinhua, Daugherty, Kaitlyn, Lin, Qianyun, Xu, Hua, Garey, Kevin W, Gonzales-Luna, Anne J, Kelly, Ciarán P, and others

    Gut Microbes


2020

  • Link prediction through deep generative model

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Chen, Yize, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Iscience

  • Deciphering Functional Redundancy in the Human Microbiome

    Tian, Liang, Wang, Xu-Wen, Wu, Ang-Kun, Fan, Yuhang, Friedman, Jonathan, Dahlin, Amber, Waldor, Matthew K, Weinstock, George, Weiss, Scott T, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Nature Communications

  • Comparative study of classifiers for human microbiome data

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Liu, Yang-Yu

    Medicine in Microecology

  • Structural feedback in the control of complex networks

    Nie, Sen, Stanley, H Eugene, Chen, Shi-Ming, Wang, Bing-Hong, Wang, Xu-Wen#

    Europhysics Letters


2018

  • Control energy of complex networks towards distinct mixture states

    Nie, Sen, Stanley, H Eugene, Chen, Shi-Ming, Wang, Bing-Hong, Wang, Xu-Wen*

    Scientific Reports

  • The influence of panic on the efficiency of escape

    Shen, Jia-Quan and Wang, Xu-Wen* and Jiang, Luo-Luo>

    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications


2018

  • Role of delay-based reward in the spatial cooperation

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Luo-Luo, Wang, Wang, Bing-Hong, Chen, Shi-Ming

    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications


2016

  • Cooperation in spatial evolutionary games with historical payoffs

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Jiang, Luo-Luo, Wang, Bing-Hong, Chen, Shi-Ming

    Physics Letters A

  • Promoting cooperation through fast response to defection in spatial games

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Jiang, Luo-Luo, Nie, Sen, Chen, Shi-Ming, Wang, Bing-Hong

    New Journal of Physics

  • Cooperation transition of spatial public goods games

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Jiang, Luo-Luo, Wang, Bing-Hong

    Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment

  • Effect of correlations on controllability transition in network control

    Nie, Sen, Wang, Xu-Wen, Wang, Bing-Hong, Jiang, Luo-Luo

    Scientific Reports

2015

  • Effect of degree correlation on exact controllability of multiplex networks

    Nie, Sen, Wang, Xu-Wen*, Wang, Bing-Hong

    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

  • Controlling complex networks with conformity behavior

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Wang, Wen-Xu, Wang, Bing-Hong

    Europhysics Letters

  • Dependency links can hinder the evolution of cooperation in the prisoner’s dilemma game on lattices and networks

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Wang, Bing-Hong

    PLoS One

  • Impact of keeping silence on spatial reciprocity in spatial games

    Wang, Xu-Wen, Wang, Zheng, Nie, Sen, Jiang, Luo-Luo, Wang, Bing-Hong

    Applied Mathematics and Computation

2014

  • Effects of aspiration-induced adaptation and migration on the evolution of cooperation

    Peng, Yu, Wang, Xu-Wen*, Lu, Qian, Zeng, Qin-Ke, Wang, Bing-Hong

    International Journal of Modern Physics C

  • Robustness of controllability for networks based on edge-attack

    Nie, Sen, Wang, Xu-Wen*, Zhang, Hai-Feng, Li, Qi-Lang, Wang, Bing-Hong

    PLoS One