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

2017

  • Role of delay-based reward in the spatial cooperation
    Wang, Xu-Wen, Nie, Sen, Luo-Luo, 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