Guillaume Beslon

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Selected publications:

Vincent Liard, David Parsons, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Guillaume Beslon (2018) The Complexity Ratchet: Stronger than selection, weaker than robustness. ALIFE 2018 - the 2018 conference on artificial Life, Jul 2018, Tokyo, Japan. pp.1-8


Sergio Peignier, Christophe Rigotti, Anthony Rossi, Guillaume Beslon (2018) Weight-based search to find clusters around medians in subspaces. SAC 2018 - ACM Symposium On Applied Computing, Apr 2018, Pau, France. pp.1-10


Charles Rocabert, Carole Knibbe, Jessika Consuegra, Dominique Schneider, Guillaume Beslon (2017) Beware batch culture: Seasonality and niche construction predicted to favor bacterial adaptive diversification. PLoS Computational Biology,13(3):e1005459


Wolfgang Banzhaf, Bert Baumgaertner, Guillaume Beslon, René Doursat, James A Foster, Barry Mcmullin, Vinicius Veloso De Melo, Thomas Miconi, Lee Spector, Susan Stepney, Roger White (2016) Defining and simulating open-ended novelty: requirements, guidelines, and challenges. Theorie in den Biowissenschaften / Theory in Biosciences, Springer Verlag.


Tim Taylor, Mark Bedau, Alastair Channon, David Ackley, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Guillaume Beslon, Emily Dolson, Tom Froese, Simon Hickinbotham, Takashi Ikegami, Barry Mcmullin, Norman Packard, Steen Rasmussen, Virgo Nathaniel, Eran Agmon, Clark Edward, Simon Mcgregor, Charles Ofria, Glen Ropella, Lee Spector, Kenneth O. Stanley, Adam Stanton, Christopher Timperley, Anya Vostinar, Michael Wiser (2016) Open-Ended Evolution: Perspectives from the OEE Workshop in York. Artificial Life, 22(3):408-423.


Priscila Biller, Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon, Eric Tannier (2016) Comparative Genomics on Artificial Life. Computability in Europe, Paris, France. 9709, pp.35-44


Yoram Vadée-Le-Brun, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Guillaume Beslon (2016) In Silico Experimental Evolution suggests a complex intertwining of selection, robustness and drift in the evolution of genetic networks complexity. Artificial Life, Jul 2016, Cancun, Mexico. MIT Press.


Ophélie Arnaud, Sam Meyer, Elodie Vallin, Guillaume Beslon, Olivier Gandrillon (2015) Temperature-induced variation in gene expression burst size in metazoan cells. BMC Molecular Biology, BioMed Central, 16(20).


Sergio Peignier, Christophe Rigotti, Guillaume Beslon (2015) Subspace Clustering Using Evolvable Genome Structure. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Jul 2015, Madrid, Spain. pp.575-582


Yoram Vadée-Le-Brun, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Guillaume Beslon (2015) Epigenetic inheritance speeds up evolution of artificial organisms. European Conference on Artificial Life, Jul 2015, York, United Kingdom.


Guillaume Corre, Daniel Stockholm, Ophélie Arnaud, Gaël Kaneko, José Viñuelas, Yoshiaki Yamagata, Thi My Anh Neildez-Nguyen, Jean-Jacques Kupiec, Guillaume Beslon, Olivier Gandrillon, András Paldi (2014) Stochastic Fluctuations and Distributed Control of Gene Expression Impact Cellular Memory. PLoS ONE, 9(12):e115574.


Stephan Fischer, Samuel Bernard, Guillaume Beslon, Carole Knibbe (2014) A Model for Genome Size Evolution. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 76(9):2249-2291.


Sam Meyer, Guillaume Beslon (2014) Torsion-Mediated Interaction between Adjacent Genes. PLoS Computational Biology, 10(9):e1003785.


Bérénice Batut, David P. Parsons, Stephan Fischer, Guillaume Beslon, Carole Knibbe (2013) In silico experimental evolution: a tool to test evolutionary scenarios. BMC Bioinformatics, 14 (Suppl 15), pp.S11.


Hédi Soula, Bertrand Caré, Guillaume Beslon, Hugues Berry (2013) Anomalous versus slowed-down Brownian diffusion in the ligand-binding equilibrium. Biophysical Journal,105(9):2064-2073.


José Viñuelas, Gaël Kaneko, Antoine Coulon, Elodie Vallin, Valérie Morin, Camila Mejia-Pous, Jean-Jacques Kupiec, Guillaume Beslon, Olivier Gandrillon (2013) Quantifying the contribution of chromatin dynamics to stochastic gene expression reveals long, locus-dependent periods between transcriptional bursts. BMC Biology, 11(1), pp.15.


Guillaume Beslon, Bérénice Batut, David P. Parsons, Dominique Schneider, Carole Knibbe (2013) An alife game to teach evolution of antibiotic resistance. ECAL - 12th European Conference on Artificial Life, Sep 2013, Taormina, Italy. MIT Press.


Sebastian Grauwin, Guillaume Beslon, Eric Fleury, Sara Franceschelli, Céline Robardet, Jean-Baptiste Rouquier, Pablo Jensen (2012) Complex Systems Science: Dreams of Universality, Reality of Interdisciplinarity. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).


Thomas Hindré, Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon, Dominique Schneider (2012) New insights into bacterial adaptation through in vivo and in silico experimental evolution. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 10:352-365


Hédi Soula, Antoine Coulon, Guillaume Beslon (2012) Membrane microdomains emergence through non-homogeneous diffusion. BMC Biophysics, 5(1):6.


José Viñuelas, Gaël Kaneko, Antoine Coulon, Guillaume Beslon, Olivier Gandrillon (2012) Towards experimental manipulation of stochasticity in gene expression. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Elsevier.


Antoine Coulon, Guillaume Beslon, Hédi Soula (2011) Enhanced Stimulus Encoding Capabilities with Spectral Selectivity in Inhibitory Circuits by STDP. Neural Computation, 23(4):882-908

Guillaume Beslon, David P. Parsons, Jose-Maria Pena, Christophe Rigotti, Yolanda Sanchez-Dehesa (2010) From Digital Genetics to Knowledge Discovery: Perspectives in Genetic Network Understanding. Intelligent Data Analysis. 14(2):173-191.


Guillaume Beslon, David Parsons, Yolanda Sanchez-Dehesa, Jose-Maria Peña, Carole Knibbe (2010) Scaling Laws in Bacterial Genomes: A Side-Effect of Selection of Mutational Robustness. BioSystems, 102(1):32-40.


Antoine Coulon, Olivier Gandrillon, Guillaume Beslon (2010) On the spontaneous stochastic dynamics of a single gene: complexity of the molecular interplay at the promoter. BMC Systems Biology. 4, pp.2.


David P. Parsons, Carole Knibbe, Guillaume Beslon (2010) Importance of the rearrangement rates on the organization of transcription. Proceedings of Artificial Life XII, Aug 2010, Odense, Denmark. pp.479-486.


C. Knibbe, J.M. Fayard, Guillaume Beslon (2008) The topology of the protein network influences the dynamics of gene order: from systems biology to a systemic understanding of evolution. Artificial Life.14(1):149-156.


C Knibbe, A Coulon, O Mazet, JM Fayard, G Beslon (2007) A long-term evolutionary pressure on the amount of noncoding DNA. Molecular biology and evolution. 24(10):2344-2353


C Knibbe, O Mazet, F Chaudier, JM Fayard, G Beslon (2007) Evolutionary coupling between the deleteriousness of gene mutations and the amount of non-coding sequences. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 244(4):621-630.


Wolfgang Banzhaf, Guillaume Beslon, Stephen Christensen, A. James, François Képès, Virginie Lefort, F. Julian, Miroslav Radman, Jeremy J. Ramsden (2006) Guidelines: From artificial evolution to computational evolution: a research agenda. Nature Reviews Genetics.7(9):729-735.

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