Elucidating the genetic basis of human diseases is a central goal of genetics and molecular biology. While traditional linkage analysis and modern high-throughput techniques often provide long lists of tens or hundreds of disease gene candidates, the identification of disease genes among the candidates remains time-con…
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Biogeography-Based Informative Gene Selection and Cancer Classification Using SVM and Random Forestscs.NE
Microarray cancer gene expression data comprise of very high dimensions. Reducing the dimensions helps in improving the overall analysis and classification performance. We propose two hybrid techniques, Biogeography - based Optimization - Random Forests (BBO - RF) and BBO - SVM (Support Vector Machines) with gene ranki…
Unified framework improves gene prioritization in disease studies.
problem Identifying genes involved in diseases using heterogeneous biological data.
method Network propagation-based gene prioritization with integrated biological information.
result Significant improvements in prioritizing genes not identified by traditional methods.
Identifying significant subsets of the genes, gene shaving is an essential and challenging issue for biomedical research for a huge number of genes and the complex nature of biological networks,. Since positive definite kernel based methods on genomic information can improve the prediction of diseases, in this paper we…
Bioinformatics tools have been developed to interpret gene expression data at the gene set level, and these gene set based analyses improve the biologists' capability to discover functional relevance of their experiment design. While elucidating gene set individually, inter gene sets association is rarely taken into co…
New hypergraph method improves scRNA-seq clustering.
problem Loss of higher-order information and overestimation in coexpression networks.
method Conceptualizing scRNA-seq data as hypergraphs and proposing novel clustering methods.
result Proposed methods outperform existing methods on simulated and real datasets.
BioBO optimizes gene perturbation design using Bayesian optimization with biological priors.
problem Efficient design of genomic perturbation experiments in drug discovery.
method Integrates Bayesian optimization with multimodal gene embeddings and enrichment analysis.
result Improves labeling efficiency by 25-40% and identifies top-performing perturbations more effectively.
The linking genotype to phenotype is the fundamental aim of modern genetics. We focus on study of links between gene expression data and phenotype data through integrative analysis. We propose three approaches. 1) The inherent complexity of phenotypes makes high-throughput phenotype profiling a very difficult and labor…
Study identifies cancer genes through graph anomaly analysis of protein interactions.
problem Insufficient modeling of biological information in protein interaction networks for cancer gene identification.
method Proposes HIerarchical-Perspective Graph Neural Network (HIPGNN) to detect weight heterogeneity and spectral flattening in cancer gene nodes.
result HIPGNN detects weight heterogeneity and spectral flattening, leading to improved cancer gene identification.
The problem of multilabel classification when the labels are related through a hierarchical categorization scheme occurs in many application domains such as computational biology. For example, this problem arises naturally when trying to automatically assign gene function using a controlled vocabularies like Gene Ontol…
VEGN uses graph neural networks to predict disease-causing mutations from genetic variants.
problem Identifying disease-causing mutations from millions of genetic variants.
method VEGN employs a graph neural network on a heterogeneous graph of genes and variants, learning gene-gene interactions.
result VEGN outperforms existing state-of-the-art models in variant effect prediction.
We present the extention and application of a new unsupervised statistical learning technique--the Partition Decoupling Method--to gene expression data. Because it has the ability to reveal non-linear and non-convex geometries present in the data, the PDM is an improvement over typical gene expression analysis algorith…
InfoSEM: A Deep Generative Model with Informative Priors for Gene Regulatory Network Inferencestat.ML
InfoSEM infers gene regulatory networks without GT labels, improving performance.
problem Inferring GRNs from gene expression data with high accuracy and avoiding biases.
method InfoSEM uses deep generative models with informative priors (textual gene embeddings).
result InfoSEM outperforms existing models by 38.5% across four datasets.
MarkerMap selects key genes for cell type analysis in single-cell RNA-seq.
problem Selecting informative genes from large single-cell RNA-seq datasets is challenging and computationally intensive.
method MarkerMap is a generative model that identifies minimal gene sets explaining cell type variability.
result MarkerMap outperforms existing methods in both supervised and unsupervised marker selection.
Inverse Projection Representation and Category Contribution Rate for Robust Tumor Recognitionq-bio.QM
Sparse representation based classification (SRC) methods have achieved remarkable results. SRC, however, still suffer from requiring enough training samples, insufficient use of test samples and instability of representation. In this paper, a stable inverse projection representation based classification (IPRC) is prese…
Popular online enrichment analysis tools from the field of molecular systems biology provide users with the ability to submit their experimental results as gene sets for individual analysis. Such queries are kept private, and have never before been considered as a resource for integrative analysis. By harnessing gene s…
A new method uses gene interaction networks to predict gene functions.
problem Predicting gene functions from gene interactions.
method Context graph kernel approach in a machine learning framework.
result The proposed method outperforms linkage-assumption-based methods.
Background: Predictive, stable and interpretable gene signatures are generally seen as an important step towards a better personalized medicine. During the last decade various methods have been proposed for that purpose. However, one important obstacle for making gene signatures a standard tool in clinics is the typica…
Cataloging the neuronal cell types that comprise circuitry of individual brain regions is a major goal of modern neuroscience and the BRAIN initiative. Single-cell RNA sequencing can now be used to measure the gene expression profiles of individual neurons and to categorize neurons based on their gene expression profil…
When searching for gene pathways leading to specific disease outcomes, additional information on gene characteristics is often available that may facilitate to differentiate genes related to the disease from irrelevant background when connections involving both types of genes are observed and their relationships to the…
Due to the advantage of achieving a better performance under weak regularization, elastic net has attracted wide attention in statistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, and other fields. In particular, a variation of the elastic net, adaptive elastic net (AEN), integrates the adaptive grouping effect. In this paper,…
Robust biclustering method tackles heavy-tailed data issues.
problem Discovering local correlation in heavy-tailed data.
method Convex biclustering with Huber loss and tuning-free parameter selection.
result Outperforms traditional biclustering methods in heavy-tailed noise.
Gene-Gene association for Imaging Genetics Data using Robust Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysisstat.ML
In genome-wide interaction studies, to detect gene-gene interactions, most methods are divided into two folds: single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) based and gene-based methods. Basically, the methods based on the gene are more effective than the methods based on a single SNP. Recent years, while the kernel canonical …
The estimation of covariance matrices of gene expressions has many applications in cancer systems biology. Many gene expression studies, however, are hampered by low sample size and it has therefore become popular to increase sample size by collecting gene expression data across studies. Motivated by the traditional me…
ENN method uses expectile regression for genetic data analysis of complex diseases.
problem Discover additional genetic variants contributing to complex diseases.
method Developed an expectile neural network (ENN) method integrating expectile regression and neural networks.
result ENN method outperforms existing expectile regression in discovering genetic variants predisposing to sub-populations.
We present a Bayesian hierarchical multi-view mixture model termed Symphony that simultaneously learns clusters of cells representing cell types and their underlying gene regulatory networks by integrating data from two views: single-cell gene expression data and paired epigenetic data, which is informative of gene-gen…
Characterization of differentially expressed genes using high-dimensional co-expression networksstat.AP
We present a technique to characterize differentially expressed genes in terms of their position in a high-dimensional co-expression network. The set-up of Gaussian graphical models is used to construct representations of the co-expression network in such a way that redundancy and the propagation of spurious informatio…
Physics-informed methods infer spatial dynamics from static snapshots, but limits exist.
problem Inferring spatial dynamics from static molecular patterns.
method Combining flexible representations with mechanistic constraints, analyzing structural identifiability, and adapting physics-informed schemes.
result Static spatial patterns can identify spatially varying dynamics, but limits exist due to modeling choices.
Most network-based protein (or gene) function prediction methods are based on the assumption that the labels of two adjacent proteins in the network are likely to be the same. However, assuming the pairwise relationship between proteins or genes is not complete, the information a group of genes that show very similar p…
Gene expression data represents a unique challenge in predictive model building, because of the small number of samples compared to the huge amount of features . This "" property has hampered application of deep learning techniques for disease outcome classification. Sparse learning by incorporating ex…
We consider the analysis of high dimensional data given in the form of a matrix with columns consisting of observations and rows consisting of features. Often the data is such that the observations do not reside on a regular grid, and the given order of the features is arbitrary and does not convey a notion of locality…
Proposes a novel network-based neighborhood regression for biological systems.
problem Lack of comprehensive analysis on biological modules using both global and local network data.
method Develops a community-wise least square optimization approach to analyze gene modules and their regulatory strength.
result Achieves exact minimax optimality and linear consistency in identifying gene module associations.
We consider the problem of estimating the evolutionary history of a set of species (phylogeny or species tree) from several genes. It is known that the evolutionary history of individual genes (gene trees) might be topologically distinct from each other and from the underlying species tree, possibly confounding phyloge…
GLasso: Regularized Multi-task Graphical Lasso for Joint Estimation of eQTL Mapping and Gene Networkstat.ML
A new method for joint eQTL mapping and gene network estimation.
problem Discovering SNP-gene relationships and gene-gene relationships in gene expression regulation.
method L1-2 regularized multi-task graphical lasso (L1-2 GLasso).
result Competitive performance on capturing true sparse structures of eQTL mapping and gene network.
New methods detect continuous variation in single-cell data.
problem Continuous variation within and between cell types not detected by discrete analyses.
method Three topologically motivated mathematical methods for unsupervised feature selection.
result Detect additional biologically meaningful genes with coherent expression patterns.
DNA rearrangement processes recombine gene segments that are organized on the chromosome in a variety of ways. The segments can overlap, interleave or one may be a subsegment of another. We use directed graphs to represent segment organizations on a given locus where contigs containing rearranged segments represent ver…
New method expands seed genes to functionally related clusters.
problem Discovering functionally related genes lacking GO terms.
method Semi-supervised learning with positive and unlabeled examples.
result LPU approaches significantly outperform existing methods.
Univariate and multivariate feature selection methods can be used for biomarker discovery in analysis of toxicant exposure. Among the univariate methods, differential expression analysis (DEA) is often applied for its simplicity and interpretability. A characteristic of methods for DEA is that they treat genes individu…
LAGE is a systematic framework developed in Java. The motivation of LAGE is to provide a scalable and parallel solution to reconstruct Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs) from continuous gene expression data for very large amount of genes. The basic idea of our framework is motivated by the philosophy of divideand-conquer.…
DASH simplifies neural networks for gene regulatory dynamics using domain knowledge.
problem Pruning neural networks for gene regulatory dynamics lacks biologically meaningful structure learning.
method DASH uses domain-specific structural information to guide network pruning, leading to sparser, better interpretable models.
result DASH outperforms general pruning methods in gene regulatory network inference, yielding deeper insights.
Differential Expression Analysis of Dynamical Sequencing Count Data with a Gamma Markov Chainstat.AP
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) to profile temporal changes in living systems is gaining more attention for deriving better insights into the underlying biological mechanisms compared to traditional static sequencing experiments. Nonetheless, the majority of existing statistical tools for analyzing NGS data lack the c…
In this work a new way to calculate the multivariate joint entropy is presented. This measure is the basis for a fast information-theoretic based evaluation of gene relevance in a Microarray Gene Expression data context. Its low complexity is based on the reuse of previous computations to calculate current feature rele…
We present a procedure for effective estimation of entropy and mutual information from small-sample data, and apply it to the problem of inferring high-dimensional gene association networks. Specifically, we develop a James-Stein-type shrinkage estimator, resulting in a procedure that is highly efficient statistically …
New sparse penalty improves biclustering for gene expression data.
problem Identifying significant clusters in gene expression data.
method Prenet penalty applied to SSVD for biclustering.
result Mixed Prenet penalty effectively clusters non-overlapped data.
Next-generation sequencing technologies provide a revolutionary tool for generating gene expression data. Starting with a fixed RNA sample, they construct a library of millions of differentially abundant short sequence tags or "reads", which constitute a fundamentally discrete measure of the level of gene expression. A…
Autoencoder-based integrative multi-omics data embedding that allows for confounder adjustmentsstat.AP
In the integrative analyses of omics data, it is often of interest to extract data representation from one data type that best reflect its relations with another data type. This task is traditionally fulfilled by linear methods such as canonical correlation analysis (CCA) and partial least squares (PLS). However, infor…
Components of biological systems interact with each other in order to carry out vital cell functions. Such information can be used to improve estimation and inference, and to obtain better insights into the underlying cellular mechanisms. Discovering regulatory interactions among genes is therefore an important problem…
New method handles correlated genes for better genomic prediction.
problem Technical issues with highly correlated genes in prediction models.
method Grouping algorithm that treats correlated genes as a group and uses their common patterns.
result Significantly outperforms standard models in prediction and feature selection.