Spatial studies of transcriptome provide biologists with gene expression maps of heterogeneous and complex tissues. However, most experimental protocols for spatial transcriptomics suffer from the need to select beforehand a small fraction of genes to be quantified over the entire transcriptome. Standard single-cell RN…
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Constructing gene regulatory networks is a critical step in revealing disease mechanisms from transcriptomic data. In this work, we present NO-BEARS, a novel algorithm for estimating gene regulatory networks. The NO-BEARS algorithm is built on the basis of the NOTEARS algorithm with two improvements. First, we propose …
Quantitatively predicting phenotype variables by the expression changes in a set of candidate genes is of great interest in molecular biology but it is also a challenging task for several reasons. First, the collected biological observations might be heterogeneous and correspond to different biological mechanisms. Seco…
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.
A method selects key genes from tumor transcriptomics data using kernel methods and improves classification performance.
problem Feature selection for tumor classification using gene expression data.
method Multiple Kernel Learning with latent regularization and non-linear dimensionality reduction.
result Improved tumor classification performance on unseen test samples.
Efficiently infers gene regulatory networks from spatial data.
problem Inferring spatially-varying gene regulatory networks.
method Proposed an efficient optimization problem for SV-GMRFs.
result Solves large-scale SV-GMRF problems in minutes.
Sparse neural networks visualize paired transcriptomic and electrophysiological data.
problem Efficiently analyzing and visualizing paired multivariate neuroscientific data.
method Sparse deep neural networks with a two-dimensional bottleneck and group lasso penalty.
result Biologically interpretable two-dimensional visualizations of paired data.
With the wealth of high-throughput sequencing data generated by recent large-scale consortia, predictive gene expression modelling has become an important tool for integrative analysis of transcriptomic and epigenetic data. However, sequencing data-sets are characteristically large, and previously modelling frameworks …
Diffusion Generative Modeling for Spatially Resolved Gene Expression Inference from Histology Imagescs.CV
Stem uses diffusion models to infer gene expression from H&E images.
problem Inference of gene expression from H&E stained images is time-consuming and expensive.
method Conditional diffusion generative model to infer gene expression.
result Stem achieves state-of-the-art performance in spatial gene expression prediction.
A new method infers causal gene regulatory networks from parallel CRISPR interventions and transcriptomic data.
problem Learning causal gene regulatory networks from observational data is complicated by lack of identifiability and a combinatorial solution space.
method A continuous optimization framework that leverages observational and interventional data to infer a single causal structure, assuming a linear Structural Equation Model (SEM).
result A provably consistent estimator of the true DAG under mild assumptions.
Proposes a robust similarity measure for sparse time series data.
problem Sparse time course data in biological settings.
method Gaussian processes (GP) similarity measure based on log-likelihood ratio.
result Enhanced robustness to noise compared to Euclidean distance.
This study benchmarks transcriptomics models for perturbation analysis, finding scVI and PCA superior.
problem Limited evaluation of transcriptomics foundation models for perturbation analysis.
method Developed a novel evaluation framework using diverse public datasets from different sequencing techniques and cell lines.
result scVI and PCA identified as superior models for understanding biological perturbations.
STARK improves denoising of low-depth spatial transcriptomics images.
problem Denoising spatial transcriptomics images at ultra-low sequencing depths.
method Adaptive regularization with kernel ridge regression and graph Laplacian.
result STARK optimizes denoising performance over competing methods.
New method learns complex cell networks from millions of cells.
problem Existing methods fail to scale to large datasets.
method Multi-axis Gaussian graphical models.
result Method scales to millions of cells in minutes.
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.
Review of Single-cell RNA-seq Data Clustering for Cell Type Identification and Characterizationq-bio.GN
In recent years, the advances in single-cell RNA-seq techniques have enabled us to perform large-scale transcriptomic profiling at single-cell resolution in a high-throughput manner. Unsupervised learning such as data clustering has become the central component to identify and characterize novel cell types and gene exp…
New method infers co-expression networks robustly from multiple studies.
problem Challenges in inferring co-expression networks from transcriptome data.
method Robust method based on multivariate t-distribution with shared precision matrix.
result Identifies co-expression matrix up to scaling factor.
Kernel testing compares cell states in single-cell data.
problem Comparing non-linear cell states in single-cell data.
method Kernel-based testing framework for non-linear distribution comparison.
result Identifies subtle population variations in cell states.
SimCD simultaneously clusters cells and identifies differential gene expression in scRNA-seq data.
problem Separate clustering and differential expression analysis for scRNA-seq data leads to suboptimal results.
method Develops SimCD, a unified hierarchical gamma-negative binomial model for simultaneous cell clustering and differential expression analysis.
result SimCD outperforms existing methods in discovering cell clusters and capturing dynamic expression changes.
Towards the Latent Transcriptomeq-bio.GN
In this work we propose a method to compute continuous embeddings for kmers from raw RNA-seq data, without the need for alignment to a reference genome. The approach uses an RNN to transform kmers of the RNA-seq reads into a 2 dimensional representation that is used to predict abundance of each kmer. We report that our…
A new method uncovers discrete and continuous factors in gene expression data.
problem Jointly identifying discrete and continuous factors of variability without supervision.
method cpl-mixVAE framework using multiple interacting networks.
result The method successfully uncovers discrete and continuous factors in gene expression data.
Deep learning identifies transcriptomic patterns and cell types associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 severity.
problem Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 varies in infecting and causing severe COVID-19.
method Developed a new approach to generating self-supervised edge features, using Graph Attention Networks (GAT) and Set Transformer.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in predicting disease state of individual cells using single-cell RNA sequencing data.
Recent advances in high-throughput cDNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) technology have revolutionized transcriptome studies. A major motivation for RNA-Seq is to map the structure of expressed transcripts at nucleotide resolution. With accurate computational tools for transcript reconstruction, this technology may also become us…
Clustering with variable selection is a challenging yet critical task for modern small-n-large-p data. Existing methods based on sparse Gaussian mixture models or sparse K-means provide solutions to continuous data. With the prevalence of RNA-seq technology and lack of count data modeling for clustering, the current pr…
SVB method provides scalable Bayesian proportional hazards model for high-dimensional gene expression data.
problem Bayesian methods for high-dimensional sparse survival data often sacrifice uncertainty quantification or computational scalability.
method Mean-field variational approximation for scalable Bayesian proportional hazards model.
result SVB method offers posterior distribution for parameters and variable selection via posterior inclusion probabilities.
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a popular deep learning architecture widely applied in different domains, in particular in classifying over images, for which the concept of convolution with a filter comes naturally. Unfortunately, the requirement of a distance (or, at least, of a neighbourhood function) in the…
Study repurposes open data to find potential COVID-19 drugs.
problem Developing effective treatments for COVID-19.
method Deep learning network-based approach using large scientific corpus.
result Identified 41 repurposable drugs for COVID-19.
Reconstructing probabilistic trees of cellular differentiation from single-cell RNA-seq dataq-bio.QM
Until recently, transcriptomics was limited to bulk RNA sequencing, obscuring the underlying expression patterns of individual cells in favor of a global average. Thanks to technological advances, we can now profile gene expression across thousands or millions of individual cells in parallel. This new type of data has …
DeePathology: Deep Multi-Task Learning for Inferring Molecular Pathology from Cancer Transcriptomestat.ML
Despite great advances, molecular cancer pathology is often limited to the use of a small number of biomarkers rather than the whole transcriptome, partly due to computational challenges. Here, we introduce a novel architecture of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) that is capable of simultaneous inference of various properti…
Wavelets model complex interactions in spatial transcriptomics.
problem Capturing higher-order relationships in spatial transcriptomics data.
method Hypergraph diffusion wavelets for representing hyperedges.
result Wavelets effectively represent disease-relevant cellular niches in Alzheimer's disease.
TransST improves spatial transcriptomics data analysis by identifying cell clusters and biomarkers.
problem Low resolution and insufficient sequencing depth in spatial transcriptomics data.
method Transfer learning framework to adaptively leverage external cell-labeled information.
result TransST successfully identifies five biologically meaningful cell clusters and separates adipose tissues from connective issues.
GIDS reduces high-dimensional response and predictor spaces, improving interpretability and computational efficiency.
problem Challenges in modeling interactions among high-dimensional multimodal data.
method Graph Independence Dual Screening (GIDS) framework that reduces both response and predictor dimensions.
result GIDS reduces feature space to 9,000 CpGs and 2,000 transcripts, revealing coordinated regulatory mechanisms.
With the advent of deep generative models in computational chemistry, in silico anticancer drug design has undergone an unprecedented transformation. While state-of-the-art deep learning approaches have shown potential in generating compounds with desired chemical properties, they disregard the genetic profile and prop…
Identifying cancer subtypes in glioblastoma by combining genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic dataq-bio.GN
We present a nonparametric Bayesian method for disease subtype discovery in multi-dimensional cancer data. Our method can simultaneously analyse a wide range of data types, allowing for both agreement and disagreement between their underlying clustering structure. It includes feature selection and infers the most likel…
Graph Canonical Correlation Analysis improves CCA for multiomics datasets.
problem Limited ability of conventional CCA methods to incorporate structured patterns in cross-correlation matrices.
method Graph Canonical Correlation Analysis (gCCA) calculates canonical correlations based on the graph structure of cross-correlation matrices.
result gCCA outperforms competing CCA methods in simulations and multiomics dataset analysis.
Large datasets represented by multidimensional data point clouds often possess non-trivial distributions with branching trajectories and excluded regions, with the recent single-cell transcriptomic studies of developing embryo being notable examples. Reducing the complexity and producing compact and interpretable repre…
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs which play a significant role in several biological processes. RNA-seq based transcriptome sequencing has been extensively used for identification of lncRNAs. However, accurate identification of lncRNAs in RNA-seq datasets is crucial for exploring their char…
DIMM-SC: A Dirichlet mixture model for clustering droplet-based single cell transcriptomic datastat.ML
Motivation: Single cell transcriptome sequencing (scRNA-Seq) has become a revolutionary tool to study cellular and molecular processes at single cell resolution. Among existing technologies, the recently developed droplet-based platform enables efficient parallel processing of thousands of single cells with direct coun…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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.
SMAI framework tests and integrates single-cell data alignability.
problem Lack of a rigorous statistical test for alignability and distortion during alignment.
method Spectral manifold alignment and inference (SMAI) framework.
result SMAI outperforms existing methods in alignability testing and integration.
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 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.
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…
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…