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ArticleTechnometrics : a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences

A Transfer Learning Approach for Predictive Modeling of Degenerate Biological Systems.

Na Zou, Mustafa Baydogan, Yun Zhu, Wei Wang, Ji Zhu, Jing Li

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Article in Technometrics : a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors.

Na ZouSchool of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University.
Mustafa BaydoganDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey.
Yun ZhuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego.
Wei WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego.
Ji ZhuDepartment of Statistics, University of Michigan.
Jing LiSchool of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University.

Funding

Sparse Structure Identification from High-Dimensional Epigenomic DataR01GM096194 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHU, JI · 2010 to 2013
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NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM096194
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Modeling of a new domain can be challenging due to scarce data and high-dimensionality. Transfer learning aims to integrate data of the new domain with knowledge about some related old domains, in order to model the new domain better. This paper studies transfer learning for degenerate biological systems. Degeneracy refers to the phenomenon that structurally different elements of the system perform the same/similar function or yield the same/similar output. Degeneracy exits in various biological systems and contributes to the heterogeneity, complexity, and robustness of the systems. Modeling of degenerate biological systems is challenging and models enabling transfer learning in such systems have been little studied. In this paper, we propose a predictive model that integrates transfer learning and degeneracy under a Bayesian framework. Theoretical properties of the proposed model are studied. Finally, we present an application of modeling the predictive relationship between transcription factors and gene expression across multiple cell lines. The model achieves good prediction accuracy, and identifies known and possibly new degenerate mechanisms of the system.

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