Arboreto When to use Use Arboreto to rank candidate regulator-target associations from expression measurements. GRNBoost2 fits stochastic gradient boosting regressions; GENIE3 fits random forests. Each target is predicted from candidate regulators, excluding itself. These are observational predictive associations, not proof of direct binding, activation/repression, or causal regulation. The latest PyPI release checked is 0.1.6 (2021-02-09). Read the Docs still labels its documentation 0.1.5; the current GitHub source contains fixes that are not in the PyPI wheel . Do not assume a successful u…